Here’s how the big three stack up.
Google Docs
Google Drive Gets Gmail Attachment Support, Mobile Spreadsheet Editing
Google has brought a couple of much-needed features to Google Drive, including a solution for the age-old dilemma of how to send extremely large files.
Google Brings Chrome and Drive to iPhone and iPad, Docs Goes Offline
Google is launching versions of its Chrome browser and Google Drive app for iPhones and iPads.
The company also announced offline editing for Google Docs during its Google I/O developers conference on Thursday.
Chrome for …
Google Docs Adds More than 450 Fonts, 60 New Templates
Google Docs (now with Google Drive!) was always convenient, but it was also kind of bland. Not that we expect creating cloud-based documents to be as fun as kite-surfing or anything; still, a few more aesthetic choices would be …
Google’s New Gmail Meter Breaks Down Your Inbox
Are you good at Gmail? I’m certainly not. I gave up maintaining a trim inbox after years of pitches from public relations people finally broke my will to delete.
But that doesn’t have to happen to you. Google has released …
Microsoft Announces Office 365: Here’s What You Need to Know
Today Microsoft announced its foray into the cloud with Office 365, a line of collaborative Microsoft Office-like tools that users can access on the web.
The service aims to minimize the number of users jumping ship over to Google’s free cloud services (i.e. Google Docs) while enticing business owners with the ability to streamline …
Will Microsoft Office Eventually Include Facebook Chat?
Could it be true that Microsoft plans to launch its next version of Office with Facebook chat? It’s possible. According to a job posting found by ZDNet, Microsoft might have its sights set that way.
The next version of Microsoft’s office suite is Office 15, and no one is quite sure if it’ll find its way bundled with the next …
Google Docs Gets Chatty With Discussions
The mundane world of document editing is about to get a little more lively with discussions in Google Docs.
Although Google Docs previously allowed collaborators to comment within a document, this overhaul lets users reply to other comments and edit their own remarks, with a timestamp and profile image appearing alongside each …
Cloud Connect: Save Microsoft Office Docs to Google’s Servers
If you enjoy subtle jabs between Google and Microsoft, this round goes to Google. Per a company blog post:
“Many of you already use Google Docs for editing your documents, but there are still many people that are tied to desktop applications and haven’t experienced the numerous benefits cloud applications bring.”
Translation: …
Google Docs Wants To Help You Plan Your Wedding
Is there anything that Google doesn’t do?
Google Docs announced this week that it’s rolling out a new organizational tool for all those bridezillas called Google Weddings, just in time for Valentine’s Day.
Despite its corny nature, Google Weddings could actually be a really useful tool–it allows users to do everything from plan …
Google Docs Gets an Organizational Reboot
The past month has brought a bunch of new features and improvements to Google Docs, and yesterday, the Internet giant rolled out yet another when it announced that it is giving a “refresh” to its documents list.
The “refresh” aims to make the Docs page easier to organize and navigate, and this is accomplished in a few different ways. …
Google Docs Launches Video Sharing and Playback
Google Docs, the convenient tool for reading and writing documents and creating spreadsheets online, announced this week that it’s adding video sharing and playback to its ever-growing list of capabilities.
This means that videos can now be embedded and played in documents themselves. Videos can be up to 1GB in size, and the file …