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Google Docs Cloud Connect: the deadlock for MS-Office?

Google announced its new Connect Cloud for Google Docs based on technology acquired with the purchase of the startups DocVerse spring.

Cloud Connect, what is it? A service that essentially allows two things:

• share and synchronize documents between MS Office users who can edit the same time or who are alerted to re-synchronize when the document was amended by a partner outside of a joint session
• make documents accessible by the new tools ( iPhone and Android by storm the iPads which "break everything" ...) of our society "connectophile" I edit my document using MS Word on my PC. He went back to Google Docs automatically by the service Cloud Connect and I can then access it from my Android phone, my iPhone, my iPad or my home PC as soon as I left the office: the browser is the system access. all operational details are here .

This will surely give some anxiety to secure IT departments of large enterprises: prévisbles insomnia because of file-spreadsheet "top secret" that ends up in Google Docs against all security requirements the house and publishes a blunder (by a simple click ...) to make it accessible to the whole world ....

If used properly, Cloud Connect is a huge value to MS-Office: accessiblity, productivity, etc. .... Why is Google going to buy a company so in order to improve the product its fierce competitor.

Well, I think the desktop version of the 2010 English saying "If you can not beat 'em, join' em!" . Indeed, it has already been clearly demonstrated on this blog that MS Office is supporting figures, the cornerstone of Microsoft's business . So for Microsoft to debunk its base in companies and thus diversify its sources of income (far too advertising), Google should weaken in MS Office. A first attempt six months ago was simplify migration to e-mail Google (professional version). Now, the second phase of the offensive ...

But the documentary heritage of all MS-Office business is huge: massive migration to Google Docs is therefore irrelevant except for the more adventurous. From this point of view, hats off to our police who made the divorce (in another direction: Open Office ... to save 2 million euros ). What IT manager wants to take the risk of creating huge financial mistakes (6, 7, 8 counts ....) in the affairs of his company to Google Docs spreadsheet does is not 100% compatible with MS-Excel and that changes the outcome of critical computations without anyone noticing ....

Google Cloud Connect is therefore to avoid the binary decision of migration too difficult to take.

For small bonus every day, this is soap the plank in the right direction: for use initially marginal but oh practice, users will learn to love Google Docs and to trust him. They do not oppose some time in the transition to Google Docs. Instead, they will perhaps pressure on the IT department for making it happen!

is surely face danger that Steve Ballmer has liquidating $ 1.3 billion of Microsoft stock . ;-) Surely after throwing a few chairs and insults against Google, again ....

Source: Media and Tech Blog (by Didier Durand)