{"id":3320,"date":"2010-04-14T08:34:59","date_gmt":"2010-04-14T06:34:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tokao.com\/?p=3320"},"modified":"2010-04-14T08:34:59","modified_gmt":"2010-04-14T06:34:59","slug":"offisync-now-lets-you-co-author-files-with-most-versions-of-microsoft-office-and-google-docs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/2010\/04\/14\/offisync-now-lets-you-co-author-files-with-most-versions-of-microsoft-office-and-google-docs\/","title":{"rendered":"OffiSync Now Lets You Co-Author Files With Most Versions Of Microsoft Office (And Google Docs)"},"content":{"rendered":"

OffiSync\"\"<\/a>is\u00a0a plugin for Microsoft Office that serves as a bridge between Office and Google Docs. When it first\u00a0launched<\/a>, the app\u2019s primary feature was to save Office documents to your Google account. It\u2019s since\u00a0integrated<\/a> Google Image Serach into Office, and\u00a0support<\/a> for Google Sites. And today it\u2019s getting another major upgrade: you\u2019ll now be able to sync changes between the same document being edited simultaneously by multiple users using any modern version of Office and\/or Google Docs.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

That\u2019s a big deal, because Microsoft has been heavily promoting real-time collaboration as one of the key features of Office 2010. With OffiSync, you wouldn\u2019t necessarily need 2010 \u2014\u00a0you\u2019d be able to coauthor a document using Microsoft 2003 and 2007 as well, and you won\u2019t need SharePoint, either. The application allows you to do Office-to-Office collaboration, and you can also have users editing the same document from Google Docs\u2019 online interface. Changes aren\u2019t synced as you type in each character, but rather each time you hit the \u2019save\u2019 button.<\/p>\n

The new version of OffiSync adds support for the \u2018any file upload<\/a>\u2018 feature that Google Docs added in January. It also has better integration with Google Sites (it will automatically pull in your Google Sites file hierarchy within Office, and allows you to create a file on Sites from Office as well).<\/p>\n

While OffiSync offers a free version of its product, most of these new upgrades (including coauthoring) are for premium users only. Premium seats cost $12 a year, or there\u2019s an option for a $30 one-time fee. And, sorry Mac users \u2014\u00a0OffiSync is still only available for Windows.<\/p>\n

OffiSync has been doing quite well lately \u2014\u00a0it\u2019s currently the top rated app on the\u00a0recently-launched<\/a> Google Apps Marketplace, and has the third most installs on the Marketplace overall. CEO Oudi Antebi says that OffiSync now has over 300,000 users\u00a0The company hasn\u2019t disclosed its funding, but says that it closed a Series A round of over $1 million.<\/p>\n

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OffiSyncis\u00a0a plugin for Microsoft Office that serves as a bridge between Office and Google Docs. When it first\u00a0launched, the app\u2019s primary feature was to save Office documents to your Google account. It\u2019s since\u00a0integrated Google Image Serach into Office, and\u00a0support for Google Sites. And today it\u2019s getting another major upgrade: you\u2019ll now be able to sync […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[9,89],"class_list":["post-3320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-google","tag-mashable"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}