Each Google and Microsoft are intent on becoming Office users; preferred means of collaborating on paperwork.Microsoft is touting not only SharePoint, but in addition its Office Web Apps — and its Microsoft Docs sibling — as a way for users to share Office documents. Workplace Internet Apps allows people running vaious browsers and operating systems to view (and sometimes also edit/create) Workplace paperwork, even if they don;t have Office installed on their PCs or devices.Google, as of November 22, has its own alternative: Google Cloud Connect for Microsoft Workplace. Google is offering an invitation-only early-access preview of Cloud Connect today.Cloud Connect is based on the DocVerse technology that Google bought in March 2010. (DocVerse;s founder and CEO is Shan Sinha,
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Microsoft Office 2010 Activation clave, 2007 and 2010 people can sync their Workplace paperwork to Google;s cloud services. Cloud Connect is a 3 MB plug-in for Word, Excel and PowerPoint that Google developed using “purely public” Workplace application-programming interfaces (APIs), Google officials said. Once synced via the plug-in, paperwork are backed-up,
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Office 2010 Home And Student Serial, but additionally simultaneously coauthor and access their revision history on all paperwork.The initial trial is aimed at Google Docs Apps for Business customers, but Google Apps for Business Docs users also may be added to the preview program in the not-too-distant future. Once the final version of Cloud Connect launches, Google says it will be free for consumer and business customers. (Google isn;t providing a final release target date for Cloud Connect.)If you;re thinking what I was thinking — that Cloud Connect might be the way that Google brings back offline access for Google Docs (by allowing/acknowledging that users can save paperwork in Office on their desktop) — no dice.“This is not offline access for Docs, even though it does support offline and online editing,” Sinha told me. “Offline for Google Docs is still coming, but it will be built around HTML 5.”Google is, instead, positioning Cloud Connect as a way for current Workplace end users, even those using older versions of the product, to avoid having to upgrade to the latest Office release to get functionality like document coauthoring.“We are saying whatever version of the Workplace software you have, you can take your existing installed base and move it to the Web,” Sinha said. “This isn;t like messaging (which is more of an either Gmail or Exchange or Hotmail choice). This is not a rip-and-replace (pitch). It;s about coexistence.”For customers running older versions of Microsoft Workplace — or those running Workplace who have to collaborate with folks on Google Docs/Google Apps — Cloud Connect might be useful. I;m not sure how many enterprise customers need this kind of a bridge, however. Thoughts?