Tag archive: Docs

Yesterday, Google took its latest shot at Microsoft Office. In a blog post, the search company unveiled Google Cloud Connect, an add-on to Microsoft Office 2003, 2007, and 2010 that allows users to automatically upload and sync their documents as Google Docs in the cloud, allowing access from multiple computers with an Internet connection. “Once in the Google cloud, documents can be easily shared and even simultaneously edited by multiple… Read More

Google Docs is free. You pay for Microsoft Word. On the surface the choice should be obvious. But, according to a new study from data collection agency Clickstream, it’s not that simple. In a survey of more than 2,400 Internet users, more than half were still using Word, compared to a paltry 1% on Google Docs, according to Vnunet. With a 5% take up, Open Office was more popular than the Google alternative. The survey found that… Read More

Google has announced enhancements to its Google Docs Speadsheets online application that will enable users to embed purpose-specific “gadgets” in their document, as well as visualize data in new ways and send users email notifications when data changes. Google is borrowing some of the new ideas from iGoogle, and plans to eventually extend the functionality to other applications in the Google Docs suite. Google views the new… Read More