Yesterday Google updated Cloud Connect to include a new menu that will open Google Docs files directly from Microsoft Office. This means you don’t have to haphazardly download and scavenger hunt for the correct file to work on. Now, all of your stored Google Docs files are accessible from the Cloud Connect toolbar itself. Nice.
The “Open from Google Docs” menu will automatically list all of your documents stored in Google Docs, and Google even cleverly included a search box to help you find documents should your list prove too long.
Overall, it’s a groovy update for Cloud Connect. However, as before, Cloud Connect is still lacking in the collaboration department, though that may not be Google’s fault. Even on Microsoft’s online Skydrive version of Office we don’t see many features in terms of collaboration. What we’re ideally looking for is the live chat and team document editing that we experience within the Google Docs cloud. The problem is what we have now is just document syncing, saving, and updating –often times leading to lost data if two people are working on a document simultaneously in Microsoft Office. Comment
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