Google To Drive MS Office Users, Acquires DocVerse

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Google has acquired lots these days and most recent is “DocVerse”, through which it will offer cloud-based collaboration options to MS Office users. According to Google, this will help making Google Docs more interoperable, particularly with desktop software like Office. Although it is unsaid, Google visibly hope that it plans to drive more people from the usual tools offered by Microsoft to the web-based tools offered by Google.

Jonathan Rochelle, group product manager, Google Apps team wrote -

Today we’re excited to announce another step towards seamless interoperability: we have acquired DocVerse.

DocVerse is a small, nimble team of talented developers who share our vision, and they’ve enabled true collaboration right within Microsoft Office. With DocVerse, people can begin to experience some of the benefits of web-based collaboration using the traditional Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint desktop applications.he adds

This acquisition will prove healthy for Google Docs, but for now it will be a trouble for existing DocVerse users. Google said that it won’t close down the service right away. Current DocVerse users can keep using the product as usual, though we’ve suspended new sign-ups until we’re ready to share what’s next. Now Microsoft needs to be alert and come up with something interesting to keep hold of their users.