With documents from Google Docs, you can work in Microsoft Office programs

Testing the new Google Cloud Connect for Microsoft Office, which allows you to work with documents posted in the Google Docs online, using the Microsoft Office package, RIA Novosti reports with exile of Official Google Blog Enterprise Blog .

The Google Cloud Connect for Microsoft Office technology is based on Docverse development, which was purchased by an Internet giant in March this year.

The functionality of both Google Docs and a similar service from Microsoft (Office Web Apps) is still significantly inferior to Microsoft Office desktop applications. The integration of Google Docs with Microsoft Office allows you to level this problem: if the user needs complex functions of working with documents, he can use the Office desktop tools, without losing “cloud” advantages.

The new superstructure supports work only with the latest versions of Microsoft Office (2010, 2007 and 2003) for Windows, support for the package for Mac OS has not yet been implemented. Google's Corporation gained a sufficient number of people who want to take part in testing a new product in just a few hours, after which she suspended the acceptance of applications from users. The planned time for opening a service for general access is not reported.

The presented function has become the next stage in the competition of Google and Microsoft in the niche of online office packages. In October, Microsoft began testing Office 365 oriented to the corporate sector, which also allows joint work with office documents.

In October, Google sued the US Government, which, according to plaintiffs, during purchases for ensuring collective work, unlawfully preferred Microsoft Business Production Online Suite (is the predecessor of Office 365).

Meanwhile, according to Google, her online service for working with office documents is already used by tens of millions of people. Storage of files and execution of programs in the network "cloud" provides almost one hundred percent availability of documents wherever there is access to the Internet (including from mobile devices), as well as the convenience of collective work.