# Google Office
technological, web 2.0 @ 03 December 2008
Random thought:
If the Google Docs system interfaced directly with your hard drive (but still through the browser, potentially running locally) would you use it over OpenOffice / Microsoft Office?
I think it might be quite good. I’ve used Google Docs quite a lot recently, but find it a bit of a nuisance the files aren’t directly on my hard drive.
I’d be interested in hearing other peoples views.
December 4th, 2008 at 9:39 am
No. In general, Google is already too dominant and letting them read/write my hard drive sounds like a bad idea.
December 10th, 2008 at 4:23 pm
I’d like it if it interfaced somehow with Dropbox, which is essentially now my interface between “the cloud” (eurgh) and my computer. In fact, this is probably do-able using the respective APIs.
I do something similar with GMail now in that a cronjob pulls the latest posts into my dropbox folder every 10 minutes, giving me a local and remote copy of all of my emails.