Google adds collaboration support to Microsoft Office
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Google adds collaboration support to Microsoft Office
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Re: Google adds collaboration support to Microsoft Office
#2Uh oh, app takeover. I don't know how Microsoft is going to react to Google adding a crucially missing feature in Office and leveraging its software for its own purposes.
Re: Google adds collaboration support to Microsoft Office
#3Many of you have also asked about availability for Macs. Unfortunately due to the lack of support for open APIs on Microsoft Office for Mac, we are unable to make Google Cloud Connect available on Macs at this time. We look forward to when that time comes so we can provide this feature to our Mac customers as well.
In case all you want is to access your documents as files: http://code.google.com/p/google-docs-fs/
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#4Congratulations DocVerse! What an awesome group of people.
For those who don't know them, Google acquired them last year presumably to build exactly this.
From my experience, integrating with MS Office/Outlook APIs is no walk in the park, so syncing with Docs is friggin' amazing.
Re: Google adds collaboration support to Microsoft Office
#5Uh oh, app takeover. I don't know how Microsoft is going to react to Google adding a crucially missing feature in Office and leveraging its software for its own purposes.
Maybe this will motivate them to get their rears in gear. The fact that they've had SkyDrive and various sync/mesh technologies, yet haven't done this is downright embarrassing.
I suspect MS thought they could do this in the enterprise via SharePoint first. I think now they'll have to change their plans.
Re: Google adds collaboration support to Microsoft Office
#6Congratulations DocVerse! What an awesome group of people. For those who don't know them, Google acquired them last year presumably to build exactly this. From my experience, integrating with MS Office/Outlook APIs is no walk in the park, so syncing with Docs is friggin' amazing.
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Re: Google adds collaboration support to Microsoft Office
#7How does this functionality compare to the upcoming Office 365?
Re: Google adds collaboration support to Microsoft Office
#8Uh oh, app takeover. I don't know how Microsoft is going to react to Google adding a crucially missing feature in Office and leveraging its software for its own purposes.
Maybe this will motivate them to get their rears in gear. The fact that they've had SkyDrive and various sync/mesh technologies, yet haven't done this is downright embarrassing. I suspect MS thought they could do this in the enterprise via SharePoint first. I think now they'll have to change their plans.
I've been told by a friend who happens to work for MS that they've had this stuff working for years, but it's just been more lucrative for them to not include it (another clue that they have an entrenched monopoly in Office software).
Just like Google ChromeFrame and IE9, I hope this pushes the Office folks to release something better so the Google "barnacles" don't destroy their platform.
Re: Google adds collaboration support to Microsoft Office
#9Uh oh, app takeover. I don't know how Microsoft is going to react to Google adding a crucially missing feature in Office and leveraging its software for its own purposes.
I don't know how Microsoft is going to react to Google adding a crucially missing feature in Office and leveraging its software for its own purposes.
If Google isn't using undocumented APIs, then they're doing exactly what Microsoft wants: developing software that "plugs in to" the Microsoft ecosystem.
Re: Google adds collaboration support to Microsoft Office
#10Uh oh, app takeover. I don't know how Microsoft is going to react to Google adding a crucially missing feature in Office and leveraging its software for its own purposes.
Maybe this will motivate them to get their rears in gear. The fact that they've had SkyDrive and various sync/mesh technologies, yet haven't done this is downright embarrassing. I suspect MS thought they could do this in the enterprise via SharePoint first. I think now they'll have to change their plans.
Er? I thought they already did add sync with SkyDrive and co-authoring (at least in Word and Powerpoint) in 2010?