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Google Widens Its Online Software Pack

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Google Inc. has widened its online pack of office software to bring in a business presentation tool a work alike to Microsoft Corp.’s popular PowerPoint,fuelling the latest twist in a high-stakes rivalry. 
The Mountain View-based company planned to show up the presentation software late Monday, about five months after Chief Executive Eric Schmidt announced Google would add the application to its software arsenal.

 The new program will be included in Google’s free software bundle, called DOCS which users must be online to employ. And the company will sell a souped-up version to businesses, universities and government agencies for $50 a year per user.    As PowerPoint does, Google’s presentation software enables users to create a series of slides with a mixture of text and graphics on each. PowerPoint is widely used in business meetings. 
                                                                                                                                                           Google’s software suite already included word processing, spreadsheet and calendar management programs. Microsoft has been reaping huge profits from similar applications for years.  
                                                                                                                                                        Unlike Google’s applications, Microsoft’s programs are usually installed directly on the hard drives of computers.The high ranked people at Google have always presented their software as a counter to the ones developed at Microsoft.

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