Dog-Fooding

I was reading an article about Visual Studio 2010, next generation Microsoft developement toolset. What cought my eye was not the features. It was dog-fooding practice so wide spread in Microsoft. Dog-fooding or "eating your own dog-food", is the practice of a company using its own products internally. Microsoft employees browsing internet on IE is doog fooding. It is trivial now that IE is a market leader, but it was true when IE was in its infancy and Netscape Navigator ruled the web.

It touched the nerve with me. I am dog-fooding. I use gganttic, my project mangement software, every day for my own projects.
Since gGanttic is based on Google office applications I made decision to use Google Documents and spreadsheets for everything. So I am eating Google's dog-food full time.

What is obvious to me that Google Document developers are not dog-fooding.
I am dead sure the specificaiton of the next version of Google Documents is not written in Google Documents. The sheer amount of problems I face when writing a lengthy document with a number of images shows me that I am probably in a tiny nimority of Google serious users. And that Google developers are not in this minority, at least not many of them. For which I am sorry.

For their own sake, as for their users, they should start working with those applications for real.