Neowin News Feed for: Google docs

Rob Schneider stars as Google Docs in new Microsoft Office videos

John Callaham — Fri, 10 May 2013 21:01:06 +0100

Two new videos from Microsoft feature actor Rob Schneider playing the role of "Google Docs" that are designed to promote the idea that using Google's services are too much of a gamble. Read more...

PSA: Google Docs support of older Microsoft Office formats ends Jan. 31st

John Callaham — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 00:35:37 +0000

Google is still planning to stop supporting some older Microsoft Office formats in Google Docs after January 31st, after giving those formats a few extra months of life. Read more...

Microsoft Office to Google Docs conversion is better

Andrew Stevenson — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 11:34:19 +0000

In a post on their Enterprise Blog, Google show just how far they've come in offering a better experience when working with, and converting, Microsoft Office file formats to Google Docs. Read more...

Old malware on Google Docs updated to mess with Windows 8

Paul Ferson — Sun, 18 Nov 2012 19:28:54 +0000

Malware known to pre-date Windows 8 has seemingly been updated to identify Microsoft's newest operating systems. It is currently spreading through Google Docs, with an apparent focus on Brazil. Read more...

Google Docs to support older Microsoft Office formats until Jan. 31

John Callaham — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 18:40:42 +0100

Google has reversed an earlier decision to stop supporting some older Microsoft Office formats in Google Docs and will extend that support until January 31st, 2013. Read more...

Google Docs dumping some older Microsoft Office formats

John Callaham — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 22:29:58 +0100

Google has announced that Google Docs will no longer support several older Microsoft Office formats, such as doc, .xls, .and ppt., starting October 1st. Read more...

Google Docs gets offline editing; Google Drive gets iOS app

John Callaham — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 20:43:02 +0100

As part of its Google I/O conference today, the company announced it has finally put in support for offline editing in its Google Docs service. Also, iOS device owners can download a Google Drive app. Read more...

Google Docs updated with over 450 fonts

Nathan Tsui — Thu, 03 May 2012 06:43:13 +0100

Creative types will be happy to discover that Google Docs has been updated with more than 450 new fonts available for use in Google's online suite of document creation tools. Read more...

Microsoft tells you why Office is better than Google Docs [Video]

Brad Sams — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 19:47:58 +0000

Microsoft recently released a video that tells you why SkyDrive+Office is better than Google Docs. Not surprisingly, Microsoft Office plays a big part of their push to use SkyDrive over Google Docs. Read more...

Google adds offline support back to Gmail

John Callaham — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 00:33:42 +0100

Google has re-added offline GMail support for Chrome users, all that is required is to download a new app from the Chrome web store. Support for other Google services coming soon. Read more...

Microsoft targets Google Docs

Paul Ferson — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 14:36:21 +0100

Microsoft made their Office 365 cloud-based document service publicly available on April 18th. What might not have been expected is that Microsoft is already targeting Google Docs, having created a mini-site specifically drawing comparisons between... Read more...

Google brings the cloud to Microsoft Office

Owen Williams — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 21:29:04 +0000

Things are starting to heat up between Microsoft and Google, with the search giant releasing a plugin for Microsoft Office today that allows users to directly edit Google Docs from the comfort of their very... Read more...

Google Docs finally comes to mobile devices

Owen Williams — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 21:59:43 +0000

Ever since the dawn of smartphones, most of Google's web services have been supported by the Android mobile platform, or for others, at the very least have a mobile version available -- all except Google... Read more...

Google Docs to get cloud printing, syncing, and third party apps

Benjamin Rubenstein — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 01:16:53 +0000

Google Docs has undergone some nice changes in the past year. However, none of those changes compare to what Google seems to have in store for its cloud-based office suite. Google Operating System, a website... Read more...

Microsoft Office web apps surpasses 20 million users

Andrew Lyle — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 00:19:37 +0100

Earlier this week, Microsoft announced that they have surpassed 20 million users on their Office Web Apps. Microsoft released their web apps in the summer, which included Word, Excel and PowerPoint. Microsoft was largely unchallenged in... Read more...

Google Docs used by alleged spammers obtained by FBI

Matt Blowes — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 16:52:01 +0100

The FBI last August issued Google a search warrant to obtain documents from the Google Docs accounts of alleged spammers. In a first for cloud computing, the FBI issued a search warrant due to a... Read more...

Google Docs getting major update

Benjamin Rubenstein — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 20:38:01 +0100

With the release of Microsoft's Office Web Apps imminent, Google understands the need to step up their game. The current version of Google Docs proves great as a collaboration tool, but, admittedly, contains... Read more...

Google's April Fools round-up

Andrew Fairbairn — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 19:30:58 +0100

Google has long history of trying to play April Fools' pranks on their users, and this year was no different with hoaxes across a wide range of their services. Here's a round-up of all Google's... Read more...

Google Docs Aims At Microsoft Office Live With 'Gears'

Soumya Sengupta — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 20:10:06 +0100

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Google took an important step forward Monday in its rivalry with Microsoft Office Live, reporting that Google Docs will allow users to edit word processing documents offline. Google said users of its Google Docs word... Read more...