exposure - 6:21 am on Jun 7, 2006 (gmt 0)

I'm surprised that people are trying to judge this product vs. the offline software they are used to. Why is such a judgement necessary?

This is an online and collaborative spreadsheet tool. Nothing more.

It works for several purposes - but it doesn't need to be better than any other product that works offline-only. It's different. It's for different purposes. This needs only to work, first, and to allow you to share your data with others. And its very nice that it allows you to save spreadsheet-style data online (for the first time ever in a mass-accepted format).

Such tools aren't meant to change lives, and won't, but they will serve the purposes for which you may deem them suitable - or not - period.