Google adds free QuickOffice to Google Apps, improves MS Office documents conversion

We all hope that since Google removed free version from Google Apps, the development of this office suite will become more active. For example, it will get the full-featured mobile version. As you know, in June, Google bought the best mobile office QuickOffice. And only after 6 months (!) it started to tie it somehow to Google Apps. The free version of QuickOffice for iPad (including text processor, spreadsheets and presentations) is now available to paid Google Apps users. The versions for iPhone and Android will be also available soon. QuickOffice for Google Apps unlike the regular version of QuickOffice can save your documents to Google Drive. Why QuickOffice is better than Google's own Google Docs, that already work on iOS and Android?

Google's own editors can only edit documents in Google Docs format, which are stored in Google Drive, and can't edit regular Word, Excel, PowerPoint documents, which are stored on your phone / tablet. Meanwhile QuickOffice allows to open and edit the local documents in MS Office formats.

Moreover, QuickOffice works so well with Microsoft's formats that Google decided to use its technology to convert Word, Excel, PowerPoint documents in the online version of Google Docs. In the picture there is an example of converting Excel table, old one and the new one:

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