You would think Microsoft's Skydrive cloud storage service would work great with Microsoft's Office documents, but the lack of coordination between the two product groups makes for some frustrating experiences.
Now, Google thinks it can do better.
Earlier this year, Google introduced a plug-in for Office 2003 and later that lets you sync documents from Office apps to Google Docs without ever having to open a browser. It's called Google Cloud Connect.
Today, the company announced an update: you can now open documents stored on Google Docs from directly within Office through a new menu option. It works in Office 2003 and later on the PC (there's no Mac support yet because of a "lack of support for open APIs on Office for Macs," says Google).
Microsoft has a similar feature, but it only works with Office 2010.
Sounded great. Unfortunately, I couldn't get it to work:
This is wrong: my personal Google Docs account has several Excel spreadsheets in it at the very top level. Not to mention some Word documents and PowerPoint presentations. They didn't show up either.
Whoops. One of these days somebody's going to get this cloud computing thing right.
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