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VentureBeat: Google Docs adds offline support. Microsoft quakes?

  • Kaiyzen · 1 year ago
    Its not offline access that will catapult Google's office offering to wide adoptance..., its trust from the enterprise space at a massive level that storing their docs on Google servers will not be a security or availability risk.

    Before MS gives up on the office space.., which of course isnt going to happen, they will add a browser viewer/editor for Word. And if you are into the whole access offline, and have it available anywhere you go via the web, they already have that with Sharepoint.

    Not sure if its true or not.., maybe someone can comment.., but I heard that Sharepoint is fastest growing product line of all time. Again.., dont know if that means increase in revenue or users.

    I have played around with the Live Office/Sharepoint offering..., not fantastic..., but very usefull for easily sharing docs accross groups/locales. Think of it as a kind of source control for your biz files.
  • Josh Carr Superstar · 1 year ago
    I am so tired of hearing this:

    "Its not offline access that will catapult Google’s office offering to wide adoptance…, its trust from the enterprise space at a massive level that storing their docs on Google servers will not be a security or availability risk."

    Every time somebody post about google going after microsoft some late adopter who has never taken a risk has to jump on and make the same comment that he read somewhere else. I am sure your right but everyone knows that already so why say it again?

    The bigger story is that google has taken several steps closer to the enterprise so far this year. Last week http://cemaphore.com announced the beta for "Mail Shadow Google apps edition" They are teaming up with gmail to sync an exchange server with gmail (or what they aren't mentioning is that you can skip exchange all together) this is a big story that is happening so quietly Microsoft might actually miss it.

    What do you do when you are a Enterprise IT guy and everyone in your organization has installed a little plugin to send all email, contacts and calendar items to a gmail account? You can embrace it or fight it...if you fight it you will probably lose anyway.
  • MG Siegler · 1 year ago
    @kaiyzen - Yes, that is another point. Also yes, worth noting that while Google is coming down from the cloud - Microsoft is going up to it -- as I written on before.

    @josh - I did hear about the Gmail sync and believe that could be big as well.