Google Cloud Connect was a free
cloud computing
Cloud computing is "a paradigm for enabling network access to a scalable and elastic pool of shareable physical or virtual resources with self-service provisioning and administration on-demand," according to International Organization for ...
plug-in for
Windows
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Microsoft Office
Microsoft Office, MS Office, or simply Office, is an office suite and family of client software, server software, and services developed by Microsoft. The first version of the Office suite, announced by Bill Gates on August 1, 1988, at CO ...
2003, 2007 and 2010 that can automatically store and synchronize any
Microsoft Word
Microsoft Word is a word processor program, word processing program developed by Microsoft. It was first released on October 25, 1983, under the name Multi-Tool Word for Xenix systems. Subsequent versions were later written for several other platf ...
document,
PowerPoint presentation, or
Excel spreadsheet to
Google Docs
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in Google Docs or Microsoft Office formats. The Google Doc copy is automatically updated each time the Microsoft Office document is saved. Microsoft Office documents can be edited offline and synchronized later when online. Google Cloud Sync maintains previous Microsoft Office document versions and allows multiple users to collaborate, working on the same document at the same time. Google Cloud Connect was discontinued on April 30, 2013, as according to Google, all of Cloud Connect's features are available through
Google Drive
Google Drive is a file-hosting service and synchronization service developed by Google. Launched on April 24, 2012, Google Drive allows users to store files in the cloud (on Google servers), synchronize files across devices, and share files ...
.
Features
Google Cloud Connect could automatically or manually synchronize changes made to a
Microsoft Office
Microsoft Office, MS Office, or simply Office, is an office suite and family of client software, server software, and services developed by Microsoft. The first version of the Office suite, announced by Bill Gates on August 1, 1988, at CO ...
2003, 2007, or 2010 document with Google Docs. Documents can be secured for private access by one user, shared with specific people for collaboration, or made public to anyone. Previous document versions can be retrieved.
* Backup: Microsoft Office documents could be manually or automatically backed up to Google Docs each time they are saved locally
Video* Synchronize: Changes made to an Office document on one computer can sync when the file is opened on another computer
Video* Protect: Microsoft Office documents synced to Google Docs can be made accessible to one person.
* Share: Microsoft Office documents synced to Google Docs can be made accessible only to selected people
Video* Edit: A shared document can be set to only be viewed by others or edited as well
Video* Publish: Documents synced to Google Docs can effectively be published by making them accessible to anyone.
* Collaborate: Multiple users can work on the same document at the same time
Video* Notify: When one person edits a document, others sharing the document receive an email letting them know
Video* Print: Use
Google Cloud Print to print to local or remote network connected printers.
* Compare: Previous version are maintained allowing users to compare to older versions
Video* Roll back: Users can return to a previous version of the document.
* Green:
Green computing
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The goals of green computing include optimising energy ef ...
allows documents to be shared without printing or sending large files. Only links need be sent.
* Mobilize:
Google Sync allows synced documents to be viewed and edited with most internet connected
mobile device
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s.
* Storage: 5GB of Google Drive storage is included for free. Currently, additional storage costs per month are: 25GB-$2.49, 100GB-$4.99, etc. up to 16TB.
Additional Storage
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See also
* Cloud computing security
Cloud computing security or, more simply, cloud security, refers to a broad set of policies, technologies, applications, and controls utilized to protect virtualized IP, data, applications, services, and the associated infrastructure of cloud com ...
* Cloud collaboration
Cloud collaboration is a method of sharing and co-authoring computer files via cloud computing, whereby documents are uploaded to a central "cloud" for storage, where they can then be accessed by other users.
Cloud collaboration technologies allow ...
References
External links
Google blog re deprecation
Google Cloud Connect Help and information for users (not working)
Google Cloud Connect Help and information for administrators (not working)
About Google Cloud Connect
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