Google Cloud Connect for Microsoft Office brings collaborative multi-person editing to the familiar Microsoft® Office experience. You can share, backup, and simultaneously edit Microsoft Word, PowerPoint®, and Excel® documents with coworkers.
Google Cloud Connect The idea is simply brilliant and is a threat by Microsoft to all the services in the cloud and, by this extension, users of Microsoft Office (From version 2003 to 2010) may simultaneously edit documents with others (Both desktop and web), control versions, etc., all through a system of unique urls and will share documents on the network.
Google estimated that Google Docs would be much more successful than it has (and that Google Docs now has an extraordinary features), mainly because users are accustomed to working with Microsoft Office on an individual basis and therefore not usually be very likely to use multiple editing of documents. With this service, Google aims to attract the offices (and individuals) to the collaborative work, low-cost (Free for individuals and through Google Apps for companies) and with almost no changes to there system, who wants to continue to use their Microsoft Office. It is therefore expected that the number of users of Google Docs will rise like a cloud.
Clint Patterson, director of Microsoft Online Services says:
“We are aware that Google has recognized the tremendous demand for the Office by the users but we believe the Cloud Connect does not meet the needs of people.”
Is Microsoft’s statement correct? I don’t think so, Its a very childish statement by such a huge company, I think this new service from Google itself is going to cover a broad spectrum of needs. It is increasingly common networking, collaborative editing of documents or, for example, teleworking, so that companies need tools that support these processes.
What do you think of Google Cloud Connect? Move to the solutions in the cloud of Microsoft Office?
