Google Apps plug-in injects the cloud into Office

February 25, 2011 Off By David
Grazed from ZDNet.  Author: Sam Diaz.

Google’s latest effort to lure business customers away from Microsoft Office to Google Apps comes in the form of a plug-in for Word, Excel and PowerPoint. The plug-in essentially syncs Office files with an online counterpart that lives in Google Docs, which allows users to always see the most recent version of a file, whether they’re viewing it in a browser, in an Office app or even on a mobile device.

That means no more e-mailing a Word document between multiple people, only to be confused about which is the most recent. It means being able to see, in real time, as your colleague updates the sales figures in your spreadsheet–while you’re working on it. It means being able to literally drop an image into your colleague’s PowerPoint presentation.