Jay Chou, a senior research analyst at IDC, told Sky News: "Users are finding Windows 8 to offer a compromised experience that doesn't excel either as a new mobile interface or in a classic desktop interface.
Showing the sort of nimbleness at which entrepreneurial shops excel, Netscape retooled itself as software for the back office rather than the desktop.
On my Apple desktop, Spreadtweet mimics Excel to the point of placing an Excel icon into my iMac's Dock, so anyone watching from farther away than a cubicle wall will be fooled.
In the last year, the company has expanded those offerings with applications for e-mail, calendars and productivity, as well as applications that traditionally were available only on desktop computers, like Excel, PowerPoint and those from SAP.
Presentations can be downloaded into desktop applications like Excel for later review.
"In businesses there is a long tail of apps in a business that traditionally people built either using desktop tools or Excel, or Microsoft Access, or visual basic".
And spreadsheets can be shared and commented on by anyone, even those who don't have the desktop version of Excel.
Of course, if you create a spreadsheet with charts in the desktop version of Excel, the file will look exactly the same in the web-based version, but you won't be able to re-create charts.
The tabulated results can be downloaded and saved to the desktop in an Excel format.
