What do you think the future of computer is going to be? I think when we will turn on our computer it will first connect to the internet to reach the Operating System and that will boot up your computer. Then you will start working on whatever you want and when you save materials it will be saved in your online storage. Your computer would be a very basic machine that would only allow you to connect to internet.

Now, Google Docs is a major step towards that situation. It provides you a very basic Office suite. This must be the most convenient one as well. The reason is because you don’t have to carry around USB sticks and worry about losing that piece of material. You do type up or work on whatever you need to do online and then go to your office and turn on your computer and there you go. All your information is saved just the way you left it at home. I find this really good. I save my work information in Google docs and reports in the spreadsheet. After I get home I don’t have to open up my MSWord or Excel. I just sign in to Google Docs. It is also great when I have classes in my university. It’s very simple and fast.

There are some issues still exist in Google Docs. I still cannot use this as my primary Word Processing software. There are many reasons. One of them is that I don’t find the spell check of Google docs that good especially if they involve the medical terms. They totally suck at it. Most of my university papers involve medical terms. I like MS word much better in that instance. The printing output is also not satisfactory and many others. I am pretty sure however Google is working on this to make it as good as MS Word or other office software.

Google is taking this initial leap. Hmmm. it makes me wonder if Google wants to be the “Microsoft” of the future. They could be. They are much smarter than Microsoft on the internet. They obviously have a much better business strategy. Even with fewer resources Google is the champion in whatever they have touched. Google believes in simplicity as you could see in all their products. Maybe in near future you will see something like Google OS. You never know.

What do you think about this? Is it a big leap or you think Google docs is just a bogus approach by Google? Or are you one of those people who think Google Operating System is a joke?