Second only to Quip
Pros
• Nearest cloud based competitor in quality to MS Office and iWork
• More reliable cloud access than iWork
• NEW - Notifications of any changes. This is in addition to file comments
Cons
• Designed around composing documents instead of collaboration, contrast w Quip where conversation is easy to see and central to user experience.
The once king of collaboration fell seriously behind Quip, but has made a strong comeback. Every download of those alternatives should be considered a vote against managers who stifled internal google efforts to innovate along those lines. To the credit of the new collaborative improvements at Google Drive you can request updates for any doc you want to monitor closely , but it is not the default, so you dont have an Updates stream like that feature in Quip.
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Google Drive, v4.2017.212