Google Ready to combine Microsoft Office with Google Docs

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Google has announced a new service that combines the Google Docs and Microsoft Office.

The new service called Google Cloud Connect for Microsoft Office. Basically this is a plug-in for Office. Once installed, Cloud Connect will allow editing in MS Office documents that are stored on the server Google Docs.

Not just that, Google Docs users can collaborate to edit the document. This can even be done through Microsoft Office.

Cloud Connect can run on MS Office 2010, 2007 and 2003. MS Office Users simply have a Google account to run it.

Shan Sinha, Group Product Manager at Google, said that already there are tens of millions of users of Google Docs. “Obviously, we know many of you who still use Microsoft Office,” he wrote in the official Google blog.

Cloud Connect is an evolution of a product called DocVerse. Sinha is one of the founders DocVerse, companies that have been bought by Google in early 2010.