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Google Docs is free. You pay for Microsoft Word. On the surface the choice should be obvious. But, according to a new study from data collection agency Clickstream, it’s not that simple.

In a survey of more than 2,400 Internet users, more than half were still using Word, compared to a paltry 1% on Google Docs, according to Vnunet. With a 5% take up, Open Office was more popular than the Google alternative.

The survey found that “of all participants who used Google Docs or Google Spreadsheets during the study, 68% also used Word at least once, indicating that Google Docs has yet to be considered a stand-alone product by most of its users.”

Google has announced enhancements to its Google Docs Speadsheets online application that will enable users to embed purpose-specific “gadgets” in their document, as well as visualize data in new ways and send users email notifications when data changes. Google is borrowing some of the new ideas from iGoogle, and plans to eventually extend the functionality to other applications in the Google Docs suite.  Read more...