Google Spreadsheets

Cause what the world really needs is a slow, underpowered spreadsheet that you access online. The only reason this application has received any attention at all is because it's Google and apparently Google can do no wrong and is slowly, but surely, going to take over the world from Microsoft. Well, not if this is their best effort.

As far as I can tell, you can't even draw a border around a cell. That's fine if all you are going to do is some simple number crunching, but useless if you are going to do anything more than that. And I just can't imagine the day anytime soon when I am going to say, hmmm, rather than start up Excel or 1-2-3 or even VisiCalc, I would like to go to a web site where my spreadsheets won't be accessible without an Internet connection, I can use only a very few features, and the government might subpoena my work at any moment.

This might be a good idea one day, but not now, and not this year, and not next year or the year after. Just because you can do something, doesn't mean you should. Unless, apparently, you're Google.

Jesus why?