The latest Google acquisition, DocVerse, makes a product allowing real-time online sharing and simultaneous group editing of PowerPoint, Excel and Word documents. This purchase is an additional aggressive move by Google into the cloud-based productivity arena, where it already has a substantial presence thanks to Google Apps. Meanwhile, Microsoft has ramped up its own cloud initiatives, including offering a stripped-down version of Microsoft Office 2010 for free to Windows Live subscribers. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has indicated that the company will increasingly focus on cloud-based initiatives.
– Google announced its acquisition of DocVerse, which allows groups to
collaborate online on Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents, on March
5. The purchase gives Google another competitive angle as it seeks to expand
Google Docs, its online productivity suite, in both the consumer and bus…