The feature will allow users to share and Office 2007 Professional simultaneously edit Word

Google on Thursday Microsoft Office 2010 expanded the availability of Google Cloud Connect for Microsoft Office, which lets Office users sync their activity with Google Docs.The service, which launched in beta in November, is now available to all users worldwide. With Google Cloud Connect for Microsoft Office, two or more people can work on the same file at the same using using Office 2003, 2007 or 2010 on Windows PCs, and back it up via Google Docs. "For example, you can edit a Word document's table of contents from Dublin while coworkers adjust formatting and make revisions from Denver," Shan Sinha, Google Apps product manager, wrote in a blog post. "Instead of bombarding each other with attachments and hassling to reconcile people's edits, your whole team can focus on productive work together."
The feature will allow users to share and Office 2007 Professional simultaneously edit Word, PowerPoint, and Excel files to the Google Cloud without leaving Office. Once synched, files are continuously backed up and given a unique Web address so it can be shared. If you make edits while offline, Google Cloud Connect will sync those changes the next time you log onto the Web. The service also stores previous versions of the documents, so you can roll back if mistakes are made. If two people edit the same section at the same time, you can choose which version to keep.
To access, you'll need the free plug-in and a Google microsoft office 2007 key account."With Cloud Connect, you gain all the benefits of the cloud without learning anything new or upgrading existing software," Google said.Mac users will have to wait a bit. "Unfortunately due to the lack of support for open APIs on Microsoft Office for Mac, we are unable to make Google Cloud Connect available on Macs at this time," Sinha wrote.
Also today, Google announced the 90-Day Appsperience program, which provides 90-day unlimited access to Google Apps and hands-on support from Google experts for a "nominal fee."Sinha will be hosting a webinar about both services on March 3 at 10am Pacific time. Those interested can register online.
Munich / Unterschleissheim, Germany, Microsoft and Siemens IT Solutions and Services are intensifying their successful long-term partnership. Both companies will jointly develop and market hybrid cloud solutions for medium-sized and large companies on the basis of the upcoming Office 365 public cloud package. The hybrid cloud is a mix of public cloud applications and private cloud data center services. Microsoft’s public cloud offering within the scope of the cooperation comprises applications for communication and online collaboration. Siemens Microsoft Office 2007 Professional IT Solutions and Services (SIS) enhances these with further applications and IT infrastructures based on a private cloud. SIS makes these available via its data centers in Germany and can thus also serve customers who want to order services locally or who have to order them in Germany due to legal stipulations. SIS also integrates these services into the customer’s existing communication infrastructure and optionally operates them in its data centers. The hybrid cloud scenario opens up new and flexible business models which help companies reduce their costs since, for instance, they require a much smaller in-house IT infrastructure.
The development of joint hybrid cloud solutions by SIS and Microsoft in the scope of the cooperation covers the areas of security, data processing, legal regulations, licensing and technical integration. Siemens IT Solutions and Services provides the cloud services in the respective local data centers to comply, if necessary, with specific legal regulations. In addition, SIS provides all services via an online portal. Customers have a single point of contact for all their needs. By using cloud services, they can reduce their costs significantly because office 2010 they pay only for the services actually being used.
“Our corporate customers benefit from this strategic partnership with Microsoft. Siemens IT Solutions and Services as an IT service provider with modern data centers and Microsoft as an important supplier of technology offer customers new opportunities to strengthen their competitive position by taking advantage of flexible, dynamic IT solutions,” said Jürgen Müller, Chief Technology Officer of Siemens IT Solutions and Services GmbH.
“With hybrid clouds we help companies in their individual transition to cloud computing. Thanks to our strategic partnership with Siemens IT Solutions and Services, our customers can make even better use of the elasticity, fast scalability, efficiency and cost benefits of the public cloud paired with the advantages of the private cloud such as customization or extended functionality,” explained Ralph Haupter, General Manager Microsoft Germany. “The hybrid offer makes it easy to start using cloud services and supports the acceptance of cloud computing among our customers.”
Office 365 is currently in a closed beta phase and will be commercially window 7 available during 2011. The upcoming offer covers the current versions of online services for communication and collaboration: Exchange Online, SharePoint Online and Lync Online, as well the Office Web Apps. These are joined for the first time by the option to lease Office 2010 (Microsoft Office 2010 Professional Plus) during the contract term for Office 365.
Office 365 is part of the joint “Hybrid Cloud Computing Initiative” of Microsoft and Siemens IT Solutions and Services, which covers the joint ventures regarding Office 365 and the Windows Azure platform. On the basis of this platform, Siemens IT Solutions and Services offers, on the one hand, rapidAID (Application and Information Distribution), a fully cloud-based software distribution service package. On the other, Windows Azure features a model project for the “Modern Government Workplace” in the public sector which can be used, for example, to demonstrate the administrative relocation of a corporate location via cloud services. This solution scenario will be presented for the first time at CeBIT 2011 in Hanover.
Siemens IT Solutions and Services is a European based premium player providing state-of-the-art IT solutions and delivering outsourcing services with global reach. Within the IT service chain, the portfolio of Siemens IT Solutions and Services ranges from consulting, software deployment and system integration to the comprehensive management of IT infrastructures. Through profound industry know-how and beneficial innovations, the business technologists at Siemens IT Solutions and Services enable customers to transform their business processes on an ongoing basis. With Office Professional 2010 a workforce of more than 32,000 employees Siemens IT Solutions and Services achieved revenues of some 4.2 billion euro in fiscal 2010, which ended on September 30, – over 75 percent of these revenues came from outside of Siemens.