Google Docs, with Presentations

Monday, 5th of November, 2007

Basic editing tools, you can give presentations across the Web

Lacking in presentation features when compared to Windows PowerPoint, can't export files to PowerPoint

Google Docs' presentation tool is, ultimately, a rough draft that thoroughly deserves the beta label. Google reportedly plans to beef up the editing tools, eventually turning Google Docs into a richer environment. Judging from the slow-but-steady progress of Google Docs' word processor and spreadsheet, the presentation features probably won't acquire PowerPoint-crushing sophistication any time soon. That said, Google Docs should become only more useful over the coming months and, in the meantime, a lot of people are going to find it very useful indeed.