About 5 months ago, Presentations speculation began when Google announced their acquisition of Tonic. Today it was finally confirmed that Presentations will soon be available in their office suite, which is being renamed Google Docs. This sounds a lot better than the likely alternative, Google Docs & Spreadsheets & Presentations.

Presentations is designed to be Google’s web-based alternative to Microsoft Powerpoint, and allow users to organize, share, present, and even collaborate on presentations all from within their web browser. Here is a quick video on Presentations:

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So far, early impressions have not been positive overall. The good news is Google has a habit of releasing average products once they are usable, then releasing a drastically improved version not to long after. Hopefully Google will continue to focus their resources on the Docs suite, as all three are very usable, but need a lot of work in my opinion.