Google is diving further into the Web-based productivity-applications market by offering a new product that combines its online word-processing and spreadsheet programs. The company launched on ...

Google has acquired Upstartle, the Silicon Valley-based maker of online word processor Writely. It gives Google yet another tool in its kit of applications to take on Microsoft — and brush aside ...

Let’s fix that, shall we? The kind of software you’re looking for is called a Word Processor. At its core, such software provides you a blank page, and allows you to type on it.

Feature comparison: Google Docs vs Microsoft Word Word Processing Both Google Docs and Microsoft Word: Can be used for word processing. Leverage spell check and word count functions. Offer many ...

Word processing “allowed writers to grasp a manuscript as a whole, a gestalt,” writes Kirschenbaum, describing how such a mental model emerged. “The entire manuscript was instantly available ...

Announced today, Google is introducing a new layer of features to its Google Docs and Google Sheets productivity web apps. The word processor and spreadsheet editor will now support additional ...

That fight could be uphill and steep: Microsoft is the heavyweight of productivity software, thanks to Office. There are also doubts as to whether the world is ready for Web-based word processing. The ...

More broadly, if you're working with others on a brief, use the same word processor as the others (e.g., don't switch from Word to Google Docs).

While Microsoft Word used to be the go-to word processing app for students and professionals alike, these days people are opting for free internet-based services –– like Google Docs.

Updates to the other Google Docs apps--the spreadsheet and presentation app--will come later. Via: Google Blogoscoped, which has historical screenshots of the Google word processor menus.

Google offers its Workspace tools for competitive pricing, which ranges between $6 and $18 per user per month (in 2022, Google discontinued Workspace’s free edition for businesses).

Google pauses ‘inclusive language’ corrections The logo of Google is displayed on a carpet at the entrance hall of Google France in Paris, Monday, Nov. 18, 2019.