David Ansermot Web Developer / TYPO3 Integrator

Google swallows DocVerse to compete with Microsoft Office

Google has an appetite of an ogre. Having bought these last weeks of start-up as diverse as Picnik, Aardvark and remail it was the turn of DocVerse falling into the hands of the Internet group.
Created in 2007 by former Microsoft employees, DocVerse comes in the form of an extension dedicated to the Microsoft Office suite (Word, PowerPoint, Excel) that offers its users to update, synchronize and back up these types of documents online.
Google has an appetite of an ogre. Having bought these last weeks of start-up as diverse as Picnik, Aardvark and remail it was the turn of DocVerse falling into the hands of the Internet group.
Created in 2007 by former Microsoft employees, DocVerse comes in the form of an extension dedicated to the Microsoft Office suite (Word, PowerPoint, Excel) that offers its users to update, synchronize and back up these types of documents online.

DocVerse also deploys a tool for online collaboration, which allows a designated group in real time, view, annotate and edit at will Office documents, but also to save and synchronize mode cloud computing.

The amount of the transaction were not disclosed. But thanks to the acquisition of DocVerse, Google does a great snub to Microsoft. Indeed, the Mountain View company intends to foster interoperability between its Office Suite Google Docs (and Google Apps software suite) and Microsoft Office applications.

The ultimate objective is for Google, especially through DocVerse, pushing many users of Microsoft Office to its own office tools and online collaboration.

Already, a few weeks ago, Google had made a further step towards cloud computing by offering users of Google Docs service for storing and sharing documents online.