Google Unveils Online Spreadsheet Program

Google hopes to continue to steal users away from Microsoft products with its latest offering. Google Spreadsheet will aim to battle Microsoft Excel while trying to chip away at the dominance of Microsoft Office. The program will be free online without users being forced to download it.

If this was a standalone application, I may understand the usefulness. But, how many times have you performed large tasks like this in your browser, only to lose all the work when the browser crashes? And since Google knowingly stores all GMAIL e-mails after they are deleted, what’s stopping them from holding onto your spreadsheet information? Maybe it’s the security buff in me, but it doesn’t sound THAT great to me.