{"id":424178,"date":"2010-03-13T13:20:12","date_gmt":"2010-03-13T18:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/?p=7055"},"modified":"2010-03-13T13:20:12","modified_gmt":"2010-03-13T18:20:12","slug":"google-makes-cloud-acquisition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/424178","title":{"rendered":"Google makes cloud acquisition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This move really pushes Microsoft because it&#8217;s going to give Google&#8217;s users the opportunity to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cio.com\/article\/572313\/Google_s_Big_New_Cloud_Play_Should_Microsoft_Be_Afraid_?source=CIONLE_nlt_insider_2010-03-12\" >access full-featured Microsoft Office files in the cloud<\/a> before Microsoft provides that service.<\/p>\n<p>From the link:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Late last week, Google (<a title=\"Latest stock quote\" href=\"http:\/\/finance.cio.com\/idg.cio\/quote?Symbol=GOOG\">GOOG<\/a>) made another aggressive move to stay ahead of Microsoft (<a title=\"Latest stock quote\" href=\"http:\/\/finance.cio.com\/idg.cio\/quote?Symbol=MSFT\">MSFT<\/a>) in the online productivity tools space by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/190942\/google_enlists_docverse_in_attack_on_microsoft.html\" >acquiring DocVerse<\/a>, a startup founded by two former Microsoft employees, known for tools that let users collaborate on Microsoft Office files on the Web.<\/p>\n<p>Google nabbed the three-year-old, San Francisco-based DocVerse for $25 million, according to the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748703915204575103730421133678.html\" >Wall Street Journal<\/a>. What Google gets in return is the technology to make Microsoft Office operate more like Google Docs.<\/p>\n<p>DocVerse provides a 1MB plug-in to Office 2007 that allows users to edit and share Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents online and in real-time with all the features of the Office client versions intact.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gocomments\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/7055\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/comments\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/7055\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/godelicious\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/7055\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/delicious\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/7055\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gostumble\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/7055\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/stumble\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/7055\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/godigg\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/7055\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/digg\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/7055\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/goreddit\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/7055\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/reddit\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/7055\/\" \/><\/a> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/stats.wordpress.com\/b.gif?host=davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2464417&#038;post=7055&#038;subd=davidkirkpatrick&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This move really pushes Microsoft because it&#8217;s going to give Google&#8217;s users the opportunity to access full-featured Microsoft Office files in the cloud before Microsoft provides that service. From the link: Late last week, Google (GOOG) made another aggressive move to stay ahead of Microsoft (MSFT) in the online productivity tools space by\u00a0acquiring DocVerse, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4050,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-424178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4050"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=424178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}