“Cloud” printing and device synchronization will soon be added to the functionality of Google Docs.

Today, the modest news that Google Docs had the opportunity to compare versions of the same document has slipped on Habré. Perhaps some more very tasty functions will soon be added, including cloud printing and the ability to synchronize user devices with this package. True, this was not reported by the developers of the service, but by a certain project “Google Operating System” (Google has nothing to do with it). The participants of this project rummaged through Google Docs code and found a message there that reads: “Coming soon: Third party applications, cloud printers, and sync devices”.

"Cloud" print, by the way, Google developers have recently described - this feature allows you to print documents on a local or shared printer without having to install a specific printer driver. A very interesting feature, if you remember all these specific printers and not at the time erased or lost drivers for them. Google Cloud print service will be built into Chrome OS and will allow you to process documents created in the Google office suite. As part of the service, users will be able to share their printers in much the same way as it is happening now with documents that are shared.
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As previously reported, the first devices with Chrome OS should appear later this month and in December - just then all of the new items in the functionality of the Google office suite will become publicly available.

Synchronization of devices, as you can guess, will allow you to synchronize data on mobile devices with Google services. Now this function is partially implemented in the paid versions of Google Apps, but the full implementation of this interesting functionality will appear later.

In general, nothing fantastic - the corporation has already announced all these services earlier and is gradually introducing it into its services. In a few weeks, most users of Chrome OS and Google Docs will be able to study in detail the functionality of the services, let's hope that all this will work as announced.

I am very pleased that the online office suite Google Docs continues to evolve, and is already quite successfully competing with offline office suites, both proprietary and free. In principle, it is online services that are convenient for many users, of course, subject to sufficient security of the data loaded into their account. On the other hand, there is a threat of hacking on local PCs; if they are connected to the Network, you can steal files from your account on the Internet or from your local PC. There's nothing you can do.

Via CNET