Google Works On PowerPoint Clone Presently

The presentation software used by millions of project managers and consultants, Microsoft's PowerPoint, will have a competitor from Google called "Presently" as the company builds yet another piece of the office suite everyone expects will challenge Office, once it actually has enough features.

reviewed by Ionut Alex. Chitu at the Google Operating System blog revealed hints of the name and functions of the new service. Chitu noted in a later comment on the blog post how the name Presently, Google's label for the service, really does put it in like with names for its other productivity applications. Google purchased TechCrunch grabbed copies of the original. Garett Rogers at Opera isn't supported We give Chitu credit for picking up on the Presently snippet; it's a nice find. But we have to wonder if somewhere at Google there is a strategy to reveal information like Presently in a way that its avid base of fans will "discover" this way. Why pay for a PR effort and sit through a bunch of interviews with the ravenous media when dropping some code into blogger laps accomplishes the same thing? Add to Del.icio.us | Digg | Reddit | Furl Bookmark Murdok: David Utter is a staff writer for Murdok covering technology and business.