To being useful to people that really need to work with unmodified microsoft office files.
I personally like google docs, so far it has handled any kind of document that I have used it for. Granted, my needs are sparse compared to some. I don’t write a lot of documents and my spread sheets are pretty simple. I use spread sheets for tracking my time on projects, invoicing, and sometimes even tweaking csv files. My most complicated spreadsheet tracks and graphs my blood pressure and heart rate. However there are some issues that seem to drive MS heads nuts when Google Docs converts their docs.
Now Google docs allows you to upload any file unmolested up to a total of 1 Gig of storage. You can also buy more storage pretty inexpensively. This should get more people interested in using Google Docs for collaboration. But there is a piece still missing. Many office heads don’t want to deal with accessing their files through a browser and won’t even look at a solution like this without the ability to access their files as if they were mounted as a drive on the system. This is one of the reasons why systems like DropBox are growing in popularity. Now Google, or some other third party developer needs to come up with a slick and affordable solution to accessing google docs as if they were in a locally mounted drive.
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