November 23, 2010 at 22:56Google Cloud Connect - Empire Strikes Back
While Facebook removed Gmail from the list of supported mail servers, Google did not lose time and delivered a rather unexpected blow to Facebook’s new partner, Microsoft. Just yesterday, Google announced on its blog “Cloud Connect” . We are talking about clouds, but not at all about which you thought. Cloud Connect volume was called a small add-on 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 panel from Google appears at the top of the Microsoft Office suite of applications, which makes it possible 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 continuing to share a document, you continue to edit it, then all additional changes will also be updated on Google Docs when you click on the save button in Microsoft Office. Each click on it sends an update to the Google Docs cloud. Unfortunately, at this stage, Google failed to implement Real-Time editing and making changes on the fly, as happens when you work directly in Google Docs.
Thus, Google dealt an unexpected blow right on the Microsoft field, inside its product. This move, can pretty much hinder Microsoft's plans to develop and popularize Office 365 , Office Liveand Office 2010, in which, as you know, quite a lot of emphasis was placed precisely on “cloudiness” and the possibility of collaboration with colleagues. In addition, the Cloud Connect panel allows you to directly view the history of changes (revisions) with it and roll back to the right place.
Google Cloud Connect is based on technology from DocVerse, which was acquired by Google in March 2010. As you can understand, this is one of those cases when Google did not just buy and “kill” a startup, but finalized the technology and implemented it in its existing products.
Unfortunately, I failed to test the product. Registration of beta testers closed a couple of hours after the announcement. There were too many willing to test Cloud Connect. So while we are waiting to “see” and “touch” and continue to observe what other tricks Microsoft, Facebook and Google will do in their competition and confrontation with each other.
If after continuing to share a document, you continue to edit it, then all additional changes will also be updated on Google Docs when you click on the save button in Microsoft Office. Each click on it sends an update to the Google Docs cloud. Unfortunately, at this stage, Google failed to implement Real-Time editing and making changes on the fly, as happens when you work directly in Google Docs.
Thus, Google dealt an unexpected blow right on the Microsoft field, inside its product. This move, can pretty much hinder Microsoft's plans to develop and popularize Office 365 , Office Liveand Office 2010, in which, as you know, quite a lot of emphasis was placed precisely on “cloudiness” and the possibility of collaboration with colleagues. In addition, the Cloud Connect panel allows you to directly view the history of changes (revisions) with it and roll back to the right place.
Google Cloud Connect is based on technology from DocVerse, which was acquired by Google in March 2010. As you can understand, this is one of those cases when Google did not just buy and “kill” a startup, but finalized the technology and implemented it in its existing products.
Unfortunately, I failed to test the product. Registration of beta testers closed a couple of hours after the announcement. There were too many willing to test Cloud Connect. So while we are waiting to “see” and “touch” and continue to observe what other tricks Microsoft, Facebook and Google will do in their competition and confrontation with each other.