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Looks like the much anticipated launch of Google's wiki and presentation package slipped. It didn't get announced last week at Office 2.0, says Rafe Needleman on Webware.

Still, it seems like Google isn't actively trying to hide their run at MS Office the way they seemed to be doing a year ago.

Know what I'd do to pry the door ajar to the enterprise space? Make some breakthrough feature for the calendar, because of course sometimes you want reminders about work-work you have to do at home, but of course you don't want to use Outlook for it. I use web Outlook, and can access Outlook through Citrix and I still don't want to use it at home -- don't want to feel obliged to look at it except on whole work-at-home days. It doesn't help that web Outlook must be viewed in IE for it to look and work at all well.

Plus, IT managers might not feel as strongly about letting go of the calendar as they would about cutting loose from Outlook for mail.

BTW I had a work-at-home day last Friday and watched part of the panel Rafe moderated at the Office 2.0 conference. He did a nice job. Crack-me-up part: when he invited Sridhar Vembu, Zoho's CEO, to remark on a question, he'd say, "Sridhar?" And every single time it sounded to me like he was saying, "Sweetheart?" Lonely homeworkers have to find some sport, and need to talk back to somebody or something, so each time I'd say, "Yes darling?"