I spent the past month collaboratively writing an iPhone book in Google Docs, and frankly, the experience was fantastic. The sharing and organizational features in Google Docs and Spreadsheets are incredible, and if you ever have to collaborate on any document where you don’t have time for file lock-outs and painstaking version control, I’d highly recommend it. The simple fact, however, is that desktop applications—specifically Microsoft Word—rule the word processing roost. Hit the jump to share what word processor you count on, and discuss whether you’d ever consider the move to web-based word processing in the comments.
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