Google Tool to Move Microsoft Files to Web

    Google Tool to Move Microsoft Files to Web


    Posted: 24 Feb 2011
    the Wall Street Journal said:
    Google Inc., taking aim at Microsoft Corp.'s lucrative Office franchise, plans to release a free tool allowing users to transfer files from the widely used software suite to the Web so that multiple people can edit and collaborate on them.

    The long-anticipated move is intended to bolster one of Google's fastest-growing businesses not related to its popular search engine--selling online software to companies. The company's Google Apps offering includes online word-processing, spreadsheet and collaboration tools used through a Web browser that are part of a service called Google Docs. They compete with Office applications such as Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
    Read more: Google Tool to Move Microsoft Files to Web - WSJ.com
    Kari's Avatar Posted By: Kari
    24 Feb 2011



  1. Posts : 357
    Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit
       #1

    You can already do seamless collaboration and editing of Office files.
    Central Desktop Delivers Seamless Integration between Microsoft Office and the Cloud



    New Central Desktop for Office Revolutionizes Cloud-Based Document Collaboration PASADENA, Calif., – August 16, 2010 – Central Desktop, a leading Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) collaboration platform provider, today announced the availability of its new cloud-based Microsoft Office collaboration tool, Central Desktop for Office. This new product delivers seamless, real-time integration between Microsoft Office and the cloud to radically improve the way people collaborate on Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents.
    more on link above
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  2. s31
    Posts : 127
    Windows 7 Ultimate
       #2

    lol fail, you can do this within hotmail already
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  3. Posts : 11,424
    Windows 7 Ultimate 64
       #3

    And I'm sure Google has no intention of using any information hidden within these documents....????
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  4. Posts : 99
    Windows 7 Ultimate
       #4

    This is old news, that's what hotmail is for....?
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  5. Posts : 1,030
    Linux Mint / XP / Win7 Home, Pro, Ultimate / Win8.1 / Win10
       #5

    Beware of the cloud - remember Google BUZZ?

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    GEWB
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