Google Cloud Connect - The Empire Strikes Back
While Facebook cut out Gmail from the list of supported mail servers, Google didn’t waste time and struck a rather unexpected blow to the newly-made Facebook companion Microsoft. As recently as yesterday, Google announced in his blog "Cloud Connect" . We are talking about the clouds, but not those that you thought. Cloud Connect-volume called a small add-in for Microsoft Office 2003, 2007 and 2010, which allows you to send your documents to Google Docs without leaving Microsoft Office. When you connect the plugin, an additional socket from Google appears at the top of the Microsoft Office applications, which allows you to share a document on your Google Docs account with one click. You will also receive the link without leaving the Office, right on the panel.
If, after sharing the document, you continue to edit it, then all additional changes will also be updated to Google Docs when you click the save button in Microsoft Office. Each click on it sends an update to the Google Docs cloud. Unfortunately, at this stage, Google was unable to implement Real-Time editing and making changes on the fly, as it happens when you work directly at Google Docs.
Thus, Google struck an unexpected shot right on the Microsoft field, inside its product. This move can quite seriously hinder Microsoft’s plans to develop and popularize Office 365 , Office Live and Office 2010, in which, as you know, quite a lot of emphasis was placed on cloudiness and the possibility of working together with colleagues. In addition, the Cloud Connect panel allows you to view the history of changes (revisions) directly with it and roll back to the desired location.
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Google Cloud Connect is based on DocVerse technology, which was acquired by Google in March 2010. As you can see, this is one of those cases where Google did not just buy and “kill” a startup, but refined the technologies and implemented it in its existing products.
Unfortunately, I did not manage to test the product. Registration of betatesters closed a couple of hours after the announcement. It turned out too many people willing to test Cloud Connect. So while we are waiting for “see” and “touch” and continue to observe what other tricks will Microsoft, Facebook and Google do in their competition and confrontation with each other.
If, after sharing the document, you continue to edit it, then all additional changes will also be updated to Google Docs when you click the save button in Microsoft Office. Each click on it sends an update to the Google Docs cloud. Unfortunately, at this stage, Google was unable to implement Real-Time editing and making changes on the fly, as it happens when you work directly at Google Docs.
Thus, Google struck an unexpected shot right on the Microsoft field, inside its product. This move can quite seriously hinder Microsoft’s plans to develop and popularize Office 365 , Office Live and Office 2010, in which, as you know, quite a lot of emphasis was placed on cloudiness and the possibility of working together with colleagues. In addition, the Cloud Connect panel allows you to view the history of changes (revisions) directly with it and roll back to the desired location.
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Google Cloud Connect is based on DocVerse technology, which was acquired by Google in March 2010. As you can see, this is one of those cases where Google did not just buy and “kill” a startup, but refined the technologies and implemented it in its existing products.
Unfortunately, I did not manage to test the product. Registration of betatesters closed a couple of hours after the announcement. It turned out too many people willing to test Cloud Connect. So while we are waiting for “see” and “touch” and continue to observe what other tricks will Microsoft, Facebook and Google do in their competition and confrontation with each other.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/108662/
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