Google Docs Gets an Overhaul

With a big push being made towards cloud computing by a number of  major companies, Google has done some major work on its Google Docs application.  There have been some major improvements made to their Document and  Spreadsheet applications as well as adding a stand alone Drawing application for charts and diagrams.

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Google Apps Puts Another Nail In IE6's Coffin

Last Friday, Google announced that as of March 1, 2010, they are dropping support for older browsers including the macdaddy of terrible web-rendering, Internet Exploder 6 (heh, see what I did there?). Google yanked support for IE6 from Google Apps, Google Docs, and Google Sites, leaving behind a list of compatible browsers consisting of: IE7.0+, Firefox 3.0+, Chrome 4.0+, and Safari 3.0+.

This isn't so much a jab at Microsoft so much as it is all the companies who are STILL USING IT. Want to use Google Docs, Apps, and Sites? Update your software to be compatible with new browsers. There's no excuse for remaining on an ancient platform. But still, lately the entire intarwebz has been very adamant about not supporting IE6 anymore, so maybe this will stir up the crowds enough to finally get everyone to make the jump.

Two Mysterious Google Developments

Earlier today, Google rolled out an update to their popular (free) Google Docs service. In the coming weeks (I don't have it just yet) Google Docs users will be able to upload their own files of any persuasion to a shared folder for collaboration. Since Google Docs supports files up to 250MB in size for documents, they figured why not open up the doors for all kinds of file storage? Is this a harbinger of GDrives to come?

Well, according to Google, no. But it sure does seem a lot like it. Even the pricing is competitive. Users get 1GB free and it's only $.25/GB after that. Enterprise users can pay $17/yr for 5GB if they're into that.

And that's not all that Google has been up to. On December 16, Google incorporated a subsidiary in Delaware called Google Energy. So, open source energy, right? Well, probably not. What's more likely (according to CNET) is that the life-running behemoth is looking to get closer to carbon neutral, considering how much power their servers use.

Do you have the GDrive yet? And what do you make of this Google Energy business?