Google buys DocVerse

Almost a year ago we reported on the appearance of an interesting startup DocVerse , founded by former Microsoft employees.

“DocVerse has released a small 1MB plugin for Office 2007 that gives this monster new functionality, including the missing features from Google Docs, that is, the ability to simultaneously edit files via the Internet.

The result was, as the founders of the startup say, the easiest and most effective tool for co-editing documents. Analysts remind that similar add-ins for MS Office are already on the market, including something Microsoft itself does in the Office Live Workspace service. However, the founders of DocVerse claim that their development is much better than all existing ones. Well, let's wait and see. ”
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Yesterday it became known that a buyer was found for DocVerse. Guess who.

Of course, this is Google, for which the development of office applications is an unprofitable, but fundamentally important business that undermines the foundations of the main competitor's welfare (Microsoft does the same in the search market).

Buying DocVerse says that Google is seriously thinking about expanding the functionality of its online office applications Google Docs towards supporting Microsoft Office users. Apparently, we are waiting for this "office war".

The transaction value was about $ 25 million.