Google’sshopping spreecontinues . This time they ’ve picked up a company called DocVerse , whose software will eventually allow unlined interoperability betweenGoogle DocsandMicrosoft Office . That ’s right-hand , Microsoft … the call is come from inside the house .
https://gizmodo.com/google-buys-iphone-email-search-app-remail-and-pulls-it-5474301
you may already store and share Office files through Google Docs , but DocVerse bestow the functionality of letting users collaborate directly on Office documents . As the crowing Google Blog puts it :
DocVerse is a small , quick team of talented developers who deal our vision , and they ’ve enable true collaboration right within Microsoft Office . With DocVerse , people can start to experience some of the benefits of web - based collaboration using the traditional Microsoft Word , Excel and PowerPoint screen background app .
Current DocVerse users wo n’t be affected , but you wo n’t be able to sign up for a novel account until Google figures out just how they ’re going to incorporate the fellowship . Of course , Microsoft was moving Office to the cloud on their own anyway ; it ’s just that it ’ll be a morsel more crowd together there than they ’d thought . It ’s official , though : even productiveness software is a battleground now . [ Google BlogviaTechCrunch ]
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