Like many of you, probably, I tire-kicked Google Spreadsheets when it first arrived on the scene, then forgot all about it. A nice bit of AJAX hackery, I thought, but no serious competition for Excel. I was wrong, though … Google’s office apps, while collaboratively adept, are functionally lame. Microsoft’s apps are adept and lame in precisely the opposite ways. Everyone needs to converge on solutions that deliver the best of both. — Jon Udell. We need a universal canvas. Technology Industry