Microsoft Office is one of the widely used and well known software for authoring Documents, Spreadsheets and PowerPoint. There have been other competitors in this space like Open Office, but the functionality offered and wide usage of the software remains unbeaten. Google has been ramping up its Google Docs offering and announces Google Cloud Connect officially in its blog and is trying to take some part of this market share from Microsoft
Google Docs has been available for a while and more importantly on the cloud from the beginning. While everyone is jumping to be on the cloud, Google has been enhancing its offering to make the web experience of its doc service close to what is available on the desktop software. I had detailed some of these enhancements previously in my blog, and today Google announced the Google Cloud Connect plugin officially to get some more users on-board.
I have been using Microsoft all along and like Google Docs for what it provides ( is Free too), but what holds me back is the cross-compatibility and more importantly my need for Microsoft Office for all my official work. We use Microsoft Office in our work place and it is easy to have a common software to work with. Microsoft has announced its Cloud approach and is also launching Office 365 to compete with Google Docs, but this is not free and is not available widely yet.
Google Cloud Connect is available for download today as a Microsoft Office plugin (for Windows users) and is compatible with Microsoft Office 2003, Office 2007 and Office 2010. Once installed, the Google Cloud Connect ribbon shows up for Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint that can save the documents to cloud on every save or on demand.
In addition to the Cloud Sync capability, the plugin allows for Collaborative work with multiple users and even handles conflict merge on the document. This functionality also allows offline activity while on the go and then syncs up to the cloud when connected online.
At the minimum, this gives me a way to back up all my important documents on the cloud. So this is definitely worth evaluating.
Author: Vinod
Source: Google Blog
Google Docs has been available for a while and more importantly on the cloud from the beginning. While everyone is jumping to be on the cloud, Google has been enhancing its offering to make the web experience of its doc service close to what is available on the desktop software. I had detailed some of these enhancements previously in my blog, and today Google announced the Google Cloud Connect plugin officially to get some more users on-board.
I have been using Microsoft all along and like Google Docs for what it provides ( is Free too), but what holds me back is the cross-compatibility and more importantly my need for Microsoft Office for all my official work. We use Microsoft Office in our work place and it is easy to have a common software to work with. Microsoft has announced its Cloud approach and is also launching Office 365 to compete with Google Docs, but this is not free and is not available widely yet.
Google Cloud Connect is available for download today as a Microsoft Office plugin (for Windows users) and is compatible with Microsoft Office 2003, Office 2007 and Office 2010. Once installed, the Google Cloud Connect ribbon shows up for Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint that can save the documents to cloud on every save or on demand.
In addition to the Cloud Sync capability, the plugin allows for Collaborative work with multiple users and even handles conflict merge on the document. This functionality also allows offline activity while on the go and then syncs up to the cloud when connected online.
At the minimum, this gives me a way to back up all my important documents on the cloud. So this is definitely worth evaluating.
Author: Vinod
Source: Google Blog
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