Google spreadsheets facilitate collaboration

This purpose of this assignment is to consider some of the pros and cons of network and stand-alone applications -- today and in the future.
  1. What is one thing you can do with Excel that you cannot do with a Google spreadsheet?
  2. What happens if two people edit the spreadsheet at the same time?
  3. If two people are working offline on a shared spreadsheet, what happens when they come back online?
  4. Google is not the only network spreadsheet platform -- what is one other?

    Three basic technologies are improving at an accelerating rate -- electronics, storage and communication.

  5. As electronics (for example CPUs and memory) improve, will that favor Excel or a Google spreadsheet? Explain your answer.
  6. As communication technology improves, will that favor Excel or a Google spreadsheet? Explain your answer.
  7. As storage technology improves, will that favor Excel or a Google spreadsheet? Explain your answer.

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