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2 things, 1) Why do you consider Google Docs to be any different than Word? They both serve the same market, so you might as well be asking why not standardize around Word. And 2) given the intended uses of Google Docs/Word, the biggest reason not to use it for research are exactly the set of asides you mentioned.

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That seems irrelevant in this context as both Microsoft Word or Google Docs would fit the analogy in the same way.

> you might as well be asking why not standardize around Word.

The comment I was replying to specifically called out Google Docs as bad, so that was what I was referring to. I agree that they appear to have mostly-similar features (though, to me as someone who doesn't use either as a Power User, GD seems to be more focused on online collaboration, and MW on local editing, the output of which is then shared)

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