Google Launches New Assault On Microsoft Office

Posted by timothy on Thursday February 24, 2011 @10:30AM from the to-the-mattresses dept.

Hugh Pickens writes writes "BetaNews reports that Google has announced the global availability of Google Cloud Connect for Microsoft Office, which went into beta late last year with technology that builds off Google's acquisition of DocVerse. Google Cloud Connect for Microsoft Office is essentially a plugin for Windows versions of the productivity suite (2003, 2007, 2010). 'The plugin syncs your work through Google's cloud, so everyone can contribute to the same version of a file at the same time,' says Google Apps product manager Shan Sinha. Additionally, Google announced a 90-day trial for Appsperience, described as 'a way for companies that currently use cumbersome legacy systems to see how web-powered tools help their teams work together more effectively.'"

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Re:collaboration doesn't look as good as in gdocs by sexconker · 2011-02-24 11:10 · Score: -1, Troll

Google docs has real-time collaboration (you can see other people's edits as they happen). The video on collaboration for Google Cloud Connect in MS Office says you have to save before edits are synced to all collaborators. Sounds like a recipe for lots of sync inconsistencies to me.
And the thing is, that's a terrible design.
You can't have multiple people editing a word document anymore than you can have multiple people driving a car on their way to the office.
It's always a clustefuck.