I think that content moving outside of strict platforms like Google Docs or Microsoft Office into all the other places that we do work is going to be another important step forward.
For years now, Dropbox has supported creating, sharing, and editing Microsoft Office documents right inside its own app and website, and it later added similar support for Google Docs as well.
I mostly just drop links to Google Docs I need edited. That piece is messaging, something Google has struggled with, well, for about as long as Google has existed. As exhaustively detailed by Ars Technica , Google has never been able to stick with a coherent messaging plan for consumers or businesses. No one can really say what other cultural workplace shifts, like those brought on by COVID, will happen in the next 15 years.
And those shifts are probably what will drive the most significant changes in products meant for work. Sign up. Ingraham Sponsored Links. In this article: apple , collaboration , gear , google docs , google , feature , google gears , microsoft , google wave , tomorrow , google drive. Google 15 years ago, if you were writing a document, chances are you were doing it in Microsoft Word.
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On the same day, Google updated Gmail on Android to feature protection from phishing attacks. Media outlets noticed that, while the added protection was announced on the same day as the attack, it "may not have prevented this week's attack, however, as that attack involved a malicious and fake "Google Docs" app that was hosted on Google's own domain". In early May , Ars Technica reported that "at least three security researchers" had raised issues about the threat, one of them in October , and that the attacker or attackers behind the actual incident "may have copied the technique from a proof of concept posted by one security researcher to GitHub in February".
Furthermore, the report noted that Google had been repeatedly warned by researchers about the potential threat, with security researcher Greg Carson telling Ars Technica that "I don't think Google fully understood how severely this could be abused, but certainly hackers did". A basic research tool was introduced in This was expanded into "Explore" in September , which has additional functionality through machine learning.
In Google Docs, Explore shows relevant Google search results based on information in the document, simplifying information gathering. Users can also mark specific document text, press Explore and see search results based on the marked text only. A simple find and replace tool is available. Google offers an extension for the Google Chrome web browser called Office editing for Docs, Sheets and Slides that enables users to view and edit Microsoft Word documents on Google Chrome via the Docs app.
The extension can be used for opening Office files stored on the computer using Chrome, as well as for opening Office files encountered on the web in the form of email attachments, web search results, etc.
The extension is installed on Chrome OS by default. Google Cloud Connect was a plug-in for Microsoft Office , and that could automatically store and synchronize any Word document to Google Docs before the introduction of Drive in Google Docs or Microsoft Office formats. The online copy was automatically updated each time the Microsoft Word document was saved.
Microsoft Word documents could be edited offline and synchronized later when online. Google Cloud Connect maintained previous Microsoft Word document versions and allowed multiple users to collaborate by working on the same document at the same time. Google Cloud Connect was discontinued in April as, according to Google, Google Drive achieves all of the above tasks, "with better results".
Users can access all Docs, as well as other files, collectively through the Google Drive website. In June , Google rolled out a dedicated website homepage for Docs, that contains only files created with the service. In , Google launched a dedicated mobile app for Docs on the Android and iOS mobile operating systems.
The mobile website for Docs was updated in with a "simpler, more uniform" interface, and while users can read files through the mobile websites, users trying to edit will be redirected towards the dedicated mobile app, thus preventing editing on the mobile web. In March , Google introduced add-ons, new tools from third-party developers that add more features to Google Docs.
In order to view and edit documents offline on a computer, users need to be using the Google Chrome web browser. The Android and iOS apps natively support offline editing. In June , Google introduced "Suggested edits" in Google Docs; as part of the "commenting access" permission, participants can come up with suggestions for edits that the author can accept or reject, in contrast to full editing ability.
In October , Google announced "Action items" for Docs. If a user writes phrases such as "Ryan to follow up on the keynote script", the service will intelligently assign that action to "Ryan".
How does working at Box differ from working at Google? Box is like Google in that it aspires to be a world-class engineering organization, spends a fair amount of energy being introspective about engineering culture and process especially for a company at this size , and is filled with really smart, passionate, and interesting people who are open to learning from and collaborating with each other.
I think it was trying to solve a lot of problems all at once, and this is really tough. The combination of something disruptive so, by definition, hard to understand because it breaks assumptions without a clearly articulated problem statement, I think was fatal. Cold fusion. Having worked in tech for so long, do you ever feel a need to disconnect? If so, how do you do it? And we always resisted putting in internet access there — it was really nice to go up, be offline, and let everyone know we were out of pocket.
One thing my family does though: We always have dinner together, every night. We ban phones at the table, and we usually light candles on the table, which seems to encourage everyone to linger and chat for an extra 20 minutes or so. Read more 5 Minutes on The Verge. Subscribe to get the best Verge-approved tech deals of the week. Cookie banner We use cookies and other tracking technologies to improve your browsing experience on our site, show personalized content and targeted ads, analyze site traffic, and understand where our audiences come from.
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