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Monday, 11 January 2010 00:00 |
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Google recently added storage capabilities for "any file type" to Google Docs. Previously, users could only work with Google's web based productivity formats. This new feature allows users to store Word, Excel, Powerpoint or even music and video files on their Google Docs account. This latest development brings to end speculations rife in the tech media about Google intending to launch GDrive, a path breaking online storage service. Although not as groundbreaking as expected, this new storage service seems to attempt to bring into the fold of Google Apps users, those business users which refuse to be tied only to Google's formats. Even previously, Google has started to make concessions to this market by adding synching for Microsoft Outlook, as well as adding the ability to convert Word documents into Google Docs. But this new feature lacks document collaboration features, although ironically the word "collaboration" has been drummed in Google's announcements. Older collaboration software providers like HyperOffice complain that they have had Google Apps features for ages, but the tech media tends to term Google Apps' features "pathbreaking". For example, as elaborated in HyperOffice's recent Google Apps blog entry, HyperOffice has had Outlook synchronization and online storage and collaboration features for years, only now introduced in Google.
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