Google Demo Slam: Epic Docs Animation

Google docs has been belittled as being far insuperior to Microsoft Word or any of the other competitors word processing programs. While it is true that Google docs doesn't offer all the bells and whistles of an expensive product, I have found that even as a writer presenting theses for graduate school, writing technical papers, and making business proposals that Google docs offers enough to cover my vast array of writing needs. The little demonstration above shows just what can be done with Google docs. I have found working at a regional office of a national business that having the opportunity to easily share a doc and edit or ammend it individually or collectively is much easier than what the competitors offered at the time that I made the switch.
Clearly even an advance business proposal with animation and a variety of charts and graphs can be done in a short amount of time. The one short coming of google is that should you encounter a glitch or a problem there is no 800 number to call and get help. However, having sat on hold with Microsoft support line for hours trying to get help, I often found it was much quicker to surf the internet looking for others who have had similar problems and found solutions that they were willing to share. I find that is definitely true with Google docs. The community of users is vast and some of them share copious details of their problems and the solutions they have found.
Many of the initial problems with Google docs have been fixed rapidly. Google's interest in supporting their users and not having an item on the shelf that needs to be reboxed and resold, they are much better at letting the user determine the final look (in one sense there is no final look, because the users keep suggesting additional changes and updates and Google keeps responding to those request).
Obviously this style of cloud-computing document service has its limitations. There is a limit to file size and image size that some users may find restrictive. However due to the vast number of users they have to set some limits to preserve the server space they are working with. Google has had one security breach that impacted a tiny fraction of the documents on their server. Even a small fragment of a breach is somewhat of a concern. Google reports that they have corrected the problem and google docs are now completely secure.