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QuickOffice Will Be Discontinued

46 points by Garbage 12y ago

coreymgilmore 12y ago
Not really too surprised seeing that Google Drive/Docs/etc. now allows MS Office file editing. Glad to see that I will gain a free spot in my app drawer now that the Drive apps for editing are all separate.
packetslave 12y ago
Blog spam. Actual update is here: http://googleappsupdates.blogspot.com/2014/06/removal-of-quickoffice-from-google-play.html http://googleappsupdates.blogspot.com/2014/06/removal-of-qui...
- plorkyeran 12y ago
  The linked article has a lot more information than the official announcement.
  - dang 12y ago
    Ok, we switched it back.
sheetjs 12y ago
Has google drive/docs won the space, or is there still interest in a non-cloud-based document / spreadsheet / presentation editor?
- wfjackson 12y ago
  I hear there's a company out in Redmond that's making a lot of ever increasing money every quarter in the space as reflected in their financial earnings. It's interesting to hear that Google has now won that space though.
  - Touche 12y ago
    Good luck finding someone under 30 that uses Office by choice though. That stuff matters.
    - Igglyboo 12y ago
      I'm a software dev so I don't really have a need for Excel, but from what I've seen/heard from my friends in business and accounting, Excel is unparalleled in the spreadsheet game. Especially when it comes to advanced features like macros and forumlas.
      - csandreasen 12y ago
        As much as I hate the rest of Office, I have to agree that Excel is way ahead of any other spreadsheet software I've ever used. That's not to say it couldn't be dislodged by something better - there's definitely a niche without a decent solution somewhere between an Excel sheet loaded with convoluted VLOOKUPs and a writing something custom with an SQL interface to a database. I'd bet you could find a huge market for something with an interface like Excel but easily able to consistently parse/transform/create new tables.
      - Nexxxeh 12y ago
        Excel gives non-programmers a Swiss Army Knife for dealing with numbers and/or lists. It's not as math as Mathmatica or Mathcad, it's not as databasey as SQL but for most people it's more than enough. It's enough for most people most of the time. Need to build a massive batch script to delete a load of specific files? You can use Excel and "concatenate" to build your batch file. Need to make a contacts list for your grandma, with clickable hyperlinks for Skype? Excel has you covered. Need to work out the expected electricity bill from the meter reading and the tariff listed on the website, then work out how much each person in the household should contribute? Excel will do just fine. Stock list? Piece of piss. You can even make a pie chart that looks like Pacman. While it's often not the best tool for the job, it's often the most flexible tool that's easy to use that will get the job done. I've just taught an 86-year-old lady how to use spreadsheets, covering basic formulas, advanced filtering and searching etc. It's intuitive and provides a good return for the learning curve.
- nilsimsa 12y ago
  I'v heard that businesses, the primary users of document/spreedsheet/presetation editor software are totally okay to put their confidential information in cloud storage format.
  - TheLoneWolfling 12y ago
    In that case they are being idiotic. It only takes one person doing something on a compromised internet connection (Captive portals that replace certificates, etc, etc) for your "confidential" information to be leaked. (Note: if said cloud storage does encryption on top of HTTPS and/or proper certificate pinning (although this can cause other issues), this may not be the case. But that is not true too often, for example with web interfaces.)
    - smnrchrds 12y ago
      I'm pretty sure that was sarcasm.
  - dragonwriter 12y ago
    Considering how successful Google, Microsoft, and others have been getting been in getting enterprises to buy into cloud-hosted solutions, for email and other functions that handle key business information, that's clearly a lot more true than your sarcasm suggests.
  - andor 12y ago
    BASF, probably one of the largest targets for corporate espionage in Germany, is migrating all employees to Office 365. I suppose their data will be completely safe in Microsoft's hands, because the contract says so ;-) http://www.microsoft.com/de-de/news/pressemitteilung.aspx?id=535093 http://www.microsoft.com/de-de/news/pressemitteilung.aspx?id...
- briandh 12y ago
  In the Play Store, OfficeSuite 7 Pro is ranked #47 among paid apps and games, is Editor's Choice, and rated 4.5 stars. There is also: SoftMaker Office, Kingsoft Office, Docs To Go, Polaris Office, and Microsoft Office. All of those, IIRC, are non-cloud-based. So in the mobile/Android space, at least, it would appear that there is indeed a lot of interest still.
- jkn 12y ago
  Sundar Pichai gave some numbers during the I/O keynote, saying that 67 of the top 100 startups, 58% of the Fortune 500 and 72 of the top 100 universities have "gone Google": https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=wtLJPvx7-ys#t=6602 https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=wt... I'm not sure what that means exactly and the numbers certainly encompass more than companies using Drive as a replacement of Office, but I found them suprisingly high. He also mentions a bit before that Drive now has 190 millions 30-day active users.
  - SoapSeller 12y ago
    30-day active users is somewhat problematic for a service like Drive. I am accessing(reviewing) on weekly basis some docs that other people have uploaded to Drive and shared with me. So I'm considered "active" user while I don't actively using it.
    - timothya 12y ago
      To be fair, that sounds pretty active to me. Maybe not actively using it to create documents, but still using it often.
  - jamesjguthrie 12y ago
    Probably includes Google Apps, i.e. e-mail, etc.
Flenser 12y ago
Will I be able to uninstall the one that was preinstalled on my phone?
roryokane 12y ago
The announcements says the discontinuation is because of “the integration of Quickoffice into the Google Docs, Sheets and Slides apps”. But I don’t see any sign of this integration. With the latest Docs app, I can’t open a .docx file from my Google Drive; only Document Viewer and Quickoffice can open it. Not that I’m too fussed; I never edit documents on mobile anyway. I use styles often, and neither Quickoffice nor Docs on Android support styles (e.g. header styles).
- jalammar 12y ago
  I believe they announced this integration at Google I/O. When you get an office document as an attachment, you no longer have to download it or import it into Docs. You would be able to open, edit, and save it in the same office format right from Docs/Sheets/Slides.
nodata 12y ago
Time to go back to OfficeSuite again!
porter 12y ago
google is training me not to use their new products.

46 points by Garbage 12y ago

Not really too surprised seeing that Google Drive/Docs/etc. now allows MS Office file editing. Glad to see that I will gain a free spot in my app drawer now that the Drive apps for editing are all separate.

packetslave 12y ago

Blog spam. Actual update is here: http://googleappsupdates.blogspot.com/2014/06/removal-of-quickoffice-from-google-play.html http://googleappsupdates.blogspot.com/2014/06/removal-of-qui...

plorkyeran 12y ago
The linked article has a lot more information than the official announcement.
- dang 12y ago
  Ok, we switched it back.

sheetjs 12y ago

Has google drive/docs won the space, or is there still interest in a non-cloud-based document / spreadsheet / presentation editor?

wfjackson 12y ago
I hear there's a company out in Redmond that's making a lot of ever increasing money every quarter in the space as reflected in their financial earnings. It's interesting to hear that Google has now won that space though.
- Touche 12y ago
  Good luck finding someone under 30 that uses Office by choice though. That stuff matters.
  - Igglyboo 12y ago
    I'm a software dev so I don't really have a need for Excel, but from what I've seen/heard from my friends in business and accounting, Excel is unparalleled in the spreadsheet game. Especially when it comes to advanced features like macros and forumlas.
    - csandreasen 12y ago
      As much as I hate the rest of Office, I have to agree that Excel is way ahead of any other spreadsheet software I've ever used. That's not to say it couldn't be dislodged by something better - there's definitely a niche without a decent solution somewhere between an Excel sheet loaded with convoluted VLOOKUPs and a writing something custom with an SQL interface to a database. I'd bet you could find a huge market for something with an interface like Excel but easily able to consistently parse/transform/create new tables.
    - Nexxxeh 12y ago
      Excel gives non-programmers a Swiss Army Knife for dealing with numbers and/or lists. It's not as math as Mathmatica or Mathcad, it's not as databasey as SQL but for most people it's more than enough. It's enough for most people most of the time. Need to build a massive batch script to delete a load of specific files? You can use Excel and "concatenate" to build your batch file. Need to make a contacts list for your grandma, with clickable hyperlinks for Skype? Excel has you covered. Need to work out the expected electricity bill from the meter reading and the tariff listed on the website, then work out how much each person in the household should contribute? Excel will do just fine. Stock list? Piece of piss. You can even make a pie chart that looks like Pacman. While it's often not the best tool for the job, it's often the most flexible tool that's easy to use that will get the job done. I've just taught an 86-year-old lady how to use spreadsheets, covering basic formulas, advanced filtering and searching etc. It's intuitive and provides a good return for the learning curve.
nilsimsa 12y ago
I'v heard that businesses, the primary users of document/spreedsheet/presetation editor software are totally okay to put their confidential information in cloud storage format.
- TheLoneWolfling 12y ago
  In that case they are being idiotic. It only takes one person doing something on a compromised internet connection (Captive portals that replace certificates, etc, etc) for your "confidential" information to be leaked. (Note: if said cloud storage does encryption on top of HTTPS and/or proper certificate pinning (although this can cause other issues), this may not be the case. But that is not true too often, for example with web interfaces.)
  - smnrchrds 12y ago
    I'm pretty sure that was sarcasm.
- dragonwriter 12y ago
  Considering how successful Google, Microsoft, and others have been getting been in getting enterprises to buy into cloud-hosted solutions, for email and other functions that handle key business information, that's clearly a lot more true than your sarcasm suggests.
- andor 12y ago
  BASF, probably one of the largest targets for corporate espionage in Germany, is migrating all employees to Office 365. I suppose their data will be completely safe in Microsoft's hands, because the contract says so ;-) http://www.microsoft.com/de-de/news/pressemitteilung.aspx?id=535093 http://www.microsoft.com/de-de/news/pressemitteilung.aspx?id...
briandh 12y ago
In the Play Store, OfficeSuite 7 Pro is ranked #47 among paid apps and games, is Editor's Choice, and rated 4.5 stars. There is also: SoftMaker Office, Kingsoft Office, Docs To Go, Polaris Office, and Microsoft Office. All of those, IIRC, are non-cloud-based. So in the mobile/Android space, at least, it would appear that there is indeed a lot of interest still.
jkn 12y ago
Sundar Pichai gave some numbers during the I/O keynote, saying that 67 of the top 100 startups, 58% of the Fortune 500 and 72 of the top 100 universities have "gone Google": https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=wtLJPvx7-ys#t=6602 https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=wt... I'm not sure what that means exactly and the numbers certainly encompass more than companies using Drive as a replacement of Office, but I found them suprisingly high. He also mentions a bit before that Drive now has 190 millions 30-day active users.
- SoapSeller 12y ago
  30-day active users is somewhat problematic for a service like Drive. I am accessing(reviewing) on weekly basis some docs that other people have uploaded to Drive and shared with me. So I'm considered "active" user while I don't actively using it.
  - timothya 12y ago
    To be fair, that sounds pretty active to me. Maybe not actively using it to create documents, but still using it often.
- jamesjguthrie 12y ago
  Probably includes Google Apps, i.e. e-mail, etc.

Flenser 12y ago

Will I be able to uninstall the one that was preinstalled on my phone?

roryokane 12y ago

The announcements says the discontinuation is because of “the integration of Quickoffice into the Google Docs, Sheets and Slides apps”. But I don’t see any sign of this integration. With the latest Docs app, I can’t open a .docx file from my Google Drive; only Document Viewer and Quickoffice can open it. Not that I’m too fussed; I never edit documents on mobile anyway. I use styles often, and neither Quickoffice nor Docs on Android support styles (e.g. header styles).

jalammar 12y ago
I believe they announced this integration at Google I/O. When you get an office document as an attachment, you no longer have to download it or import it into Docs. You would be able to open, edit, and save it in the same office format right from Docs/Sheets/Slides.

nodata 12y ago

Time to go back to OfficeSuite again!

porter 12y ago

google is training me not to use their new products.