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Google invites Microsoft Office users onto its cloud
SOFTWARE DEVELOPER Google has released its Google Cloud Connect for Microsoft Office users that have yet to discover Google Docs.
Google Cloud Connect allows Microsoft Office users to collaborate, share and synchronise Word, Excel and Powerpoint files. The plugin gives users the ability to upload files to Google's servers and have a unique URL.
Due to Microsoft's half-hearted support of Office for Mac, Google's Cloud Connect plug-in is only available for Windows users. Google said, "Unfortunately due to the lack of support for open APIs on Microsoft Office for Mac, we are unable to make Google Cloud Connect available on Macs at this time. We look forward to when that time comes so we can provide this feature to our Mac customers as well."
Google's Cloud Connect is a shrewd move, giving the firm the chance to present existing users of Microsoft Office with the benefits of its free, cloud based office suite. The firm admitted the move is intended to "help bring more people to the cloud" and this could be just the carrot needed to help users get off Microsoft's software.
At present there is no word about whether Google will be producing such a plug-in for Open Office. µ
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massive lols, i agree.
i suppose the only way they could increase uptake would be to allow a full offline mode.
Ive never tried it, maybe it has one already.
Exactly!
But then there's the demographic who will readily post on social media "I will be out of the country for two weeks starting today" and then upon return wonder why their household belongings just "disappeared".
..unless the text you're working on contains nothing of any value. imo.
I will never understand why anyone in their right mind would want to put their documents on someone else's computer (the cloud app server), where anyone from the owner of that server to the gov to a hacker can easily mine it for data.
It just seems so fundamentally stupid.
So much so I'm sure it'll be a raging success with many people, in the future.
Michael X
...is the way Sun (now Oracle) handles the project. Community contributions for new features and such are a pain in the butt to implement. Their refusal to re-write the core areas of OpenOffice as well as to dump the Java dependency is also a good indication of not giving a damn what people really need.
So we end up with an application that has potential, but is hampered.
Just look at LibreOffice. Community contributions are accepted readily. They have a roadmap where they are going to re-write core elements of Writer, Calc, etc. They also have plans to eventually dump the Java dependency in the long term...All this becomes clearer as time goes on; as LibreOffice's codebase will diverge from OpenOffice.
And this has really got nothing to do with Linux or Mac, etc. A good office suite that is intended for the world will cover Windows, Linux, and Mac as a core benefit.
MS Office is fully featured/implemented on Windows only, because Microsoft wants you to use their OS. It would be little benefit to them if they did MS Office as exactly implemented for Linux or Mac.
Yeah, Office and Windows are in serious need of proper competition for years.
And don't give me the Linux and OpenOffice crap. And yeah I didn't forget about Mac crap either.
I mean PROPER competition.
Can you do that, Google?