Why is Google getting more like Microsoft Office?

Techcrunch reports that Google Docs is getting more and more like Microsoft Office. And soon it will have all the most important features of its desktop counterpart. That’s fine but I believe Google has chosen a wrong path.

You see: at uberVU we love Google Docs. We do most of our writing inside Google Docs. And we do it because of the sharing capabilities, not because of the extended set of publishing features. We don’t care about all the fancy features that Google is adding to make it look and behave more like Word. We don’t care about those because we rarely print anything that we write from inside Google Docs. However, we do publish a large percent of the documents. Online. Blogs, Twitter, Facebook, Email, Online Magazines etc. And a web page is so… so different than a printed page that I am wondering: Why doesn’t Google make a good editor … for the online world?