Former Microsoft employees “google” MS Office

    More than a decade ago, Microsoft won the WordPerfect office suite war, and since then there have been virtually no functionality improvements in the Microsoft Office program. The same thing in the browser market: IE stopped in development for many years, until a worthy competitor in the person of Mozilla appeared. Therefore, we can only welcome the advent of startups who are trying to create the next-generation office suite on the bones of Microsoft Office.

    The most interesting thing is that two former Microsoft employees became the founders of one of these startups. This is a small California company DocVerse , the first mention of which leaked to the press .

    DocVerse has released a small 1 MB plug-in for Office 2007, giving this monster new functionality, including the missing features from Google Docs, that is, the ability to simultaneously edit files over the Internet.

    The result was, as the founders of the startup say, the simplest and most effective tool for collaborative editing of documents. Analysts remind that similar add-ons for MS Office are already on the market, including Microsoft doing something similar in the Office Live Workspace service . However, the founders of DocVerse claim that their development is much better than all existing ones. Well, wait and see.

    via The Open Road

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