Google is also playing slide. Microsoft PPT is troublesome.

After Microsoft's Office 2007 was released, there was not much reaction, but Google's Free Network Office software was another step forward: the new software, codenamed Google presently, now supports PowerPoint documents.

Google presently is part of the Google Docs & spreadsheets project. It is a project that replaces some desktop office software and processes text and forms on the Internet. It not only grabs the field of word excle, but also converts various documents into lecture courseware, which provides the same functions as Powerpoint.

Last year, Google acquired writely, a network word processing software vendor, from which "presently" came from. "The last thing we do not want to do is directly compete with Microsoft," said clardia Carpenter, one of writely's founders. But now, Microsoft may feel the pressure from them.

At present, Google's "office" has gradually taken shape, and Microsoft has launched some network tools in addition to desktop office software. These tools are not only simple online Word and Excel tools, but also a series of peripheral software. The competition between the two software giants is still very long ......