Live Documents: Microsoft Office super-sync

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Live Documents: Microsoft Office super-sync

by Ryan Carter (RSS feed) Sep 10th 2006 at 2:44PM

Live Documents sounds like what a lot of business users have been waiting for. The service is free during the beta, and syncs your Word and Excel documents between all users working on it. All you do is install the plug-in, then create and send documents to your colleagues via email. When you or they make changes, Live Documents syncs all the changes between everyone working on the document. I should hope Microsoft will either buy this company and use the technology in office or develop something as simple as this for Office. I've heard rumors on Microsoft building a Windows Live interface for this purpose, but I haven't seen any hard details on it yet. The Live Documents website has a lot more information on this service and how to get started. Other programs besides Word and Excel should be able to use the service soon via a toolbar. Check it out.

[Via TechCrunch]

Tags: Excel, Live Documents, LiveDocuments, Microsoft, Office, Utilities, Word

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Qwfwq said 8:35PM on 9-10-2006

If I'm not mistaken MS already has the colaboration and document sharing'n'syncing angle covered with their Groove 2007, which they acquired from GrooveNetworks and will be included in some of the 2007 Office system versions.

Avatar said 3:13PM on 9-11-2006

Indeed, the live desktp initiative, but that can´t come out without office 2007, and .net framework 3, expect info of it right after office launch by nov 17-21

Avatar said 3:17PM on 9-11-2006

@Qwfwq:

MS never launch tech they bought as it is to their front end, they always integrate or rebrand completely.

so, yeah, that ech is integrated into what is going to be the live deskptop initiative.

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