Google Misfires on Cloudy Office
July 2, 2011
According to the Business Insider’s “Google Tries to Show Microsoft How the Cloud Should Work,” the Internet giant has announced an update to its Google Cloud Connect that will let users open documents stored on Google Docs from directly within Microsoft Office through a new menu option. We learned in the write up:
The feature ONLY opens files that are in formats supported by Office, like .doc and .docx for Word or .xls and .xlsx for Excel.” “Google-formatted files can’t be opened from Office, so Google decided they shouldn’t even show up in the dialog box.
While Google’s update is an improvement over the lack of coordination between Microsoft’s Skydrive cloud storage service and Office documents, people who do some work in the browser and other work in Office and want all files to be available from everywhere are still without a solution.
Other vendors are adding value to Microsoft’s cloud offerings. You can get a good short profiles of a a couple of other companies in this sector in “Office 365 Partners Extend UC and Email Options.”
Stephen E Arnold, July 2, 2011
You can read more about enterprise search and retrieval in The New Landscape of Enterprise Search, published my Pandia in Oslo, Norway, in June 2011.
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