It is the third application of Google’s online office suite called Google Docs.
Google Presentations enables users to collaborate on the same presentation. Once complete, they can either share it using a public URL via Google Docs interface or invite select people to view it. Users can connect through Google Talk to follow along with the slide show.
Presentations is available in 25 languages.
Our View
Google Presentations does compete with PowerPoint, but because Microsoft doesn’t yet have an online version of PowerPoint perhaps the real competitive threat of Presentations is to online collaboration suits, such as Cisco’s WebEx.
However, Google lacks the enterprise reputation of either Microsoft or WebEx. Presentations isn’t likely to uproot either of these competitors in this market any time soon, but it certainly is making a decent debut.
