Two weeks ago, I wrote about Google Docs' new zip upload feature. I was interested in the way Google was slowly eating up on Microsoft Office's grounds by adopting the position of the collaboration platform for documents. Yesterday, Techcrunch wrote about DocVerse, a plug-in to Microsoft Office that les you collaborate on your Word, Powerpoint of Excel files direcly with coworkers.
To work, DocVerse must be installed by all parties involved in the collaboration, but once that is set, any member of a doc can edit the doc offline, or directly on Docverse's online document editing and sharing platform. Everything is automatically synced, kind of like the way DropBox works. There is even an IM integration to enhance collaboration and feedbacks. The plug-in lets you simply add comments on the documents you collaborate on, and is a great time-saver for those who do not use Google Docs in the first place. Will it save Microsoft Office from being slurped by Google Docs?
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