With Microsoft’s new Office 2010 featuring all new cloud functionality, including hosted document creation and sharing options (sound familiar?), Microsoft fights back against Google and their poplar Google Docs.
“OfficeDrop Puts Pressure On Microsoft”
That was a header featured on CMSWire that reported on hot new Google Docs functionality, the Microsoft Office 2010 general release, and OfficeDrop’s new Google Docs integration.
Author, David Roe, discusses new features of Google Docs such as added formatting options, a dictionary, as well as helpful tweaks to spreadsheet creation, the timing of which improvements doubtlessly intended to bolster competition with the general release of Microsoft Office 2010.
It seems OfficeDrop has been caught in this clash of tech titans due to our new Google Docs integration. Roe notes how “users can send paper documents to OfficeDrop,” and “automatically get their paper scanned and into Google Docs.” Google Docs does not currently provide OCR for non text-rich documents but OfficeDrop does. We aren’t choosing sides, but with the convenient document scanning and management features of OfficeDrop and our Google Docs integration, we effectively add features to Google Docs, and give more incentive for customers to choose Google Docs over Microsoft Office.
Thank you to David Roe for including us in this interesting discussion and for spreading the word about our new Google Docs integration. We aren’t sure how much pressure Microsoft is feeling from us specifically, but we agree with David that “competition for Microsoft and Office 2010 is going to be stiff as other companies start getting in on the Google Docs act.”
To check out our Google Docs integration for yourself, see our featured page at http://www.officedrop.com/google-docs-paper-management/ or our listing in the Google Apps Marketplace.
