OffiSync adds almost-real-time collaborative editing between MS Office and Google Docs

OffiSync - is a plug-in for MS Office editors, which allows you to save Office documents in your Google Docs account, and open them from it. I.e. the idea of the service - to combine the advanced functionality to MS Office with collaboration features in Google Docs. Since our last review, OffiSync added integration with Google Sites (i.e. documents from MS Office can be saved as attachments to a selected pages in Google Sites and opened from there). And yesterday the most interesting feature was unveiled - the ability to simultaneously edit document, while working in any version of MS Office (2003, 2007, 2010) or online Google Docs editor. Of course, it's not so cool, like in the new version of Google Docs, but it unites the users of both solutions.

It works this way: say, two users open the same document from Google Docs (or Google Sites) in their MS Office editors. When one user changes something and presses the Save button, the second one receives notification about the changes in the document. He can preview the new version of the document, and if everything is ok - update his local version.



This collaborative feature is only available in the paid OffiSync version, which costs $30.

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