The Inversion Continues: Google Docs Gets more “Office-like”

As depicted in the video below, Google has made some major updates to Google Docs. Most notably, they’ve added formatting rulers to the word processing application and it now has Google Wave-like support of simultaneous editing.

In this article in InformationWeek, David Berlind points out that Google Docs already claims some 25 million users in 2 million companies. Meanwhile, Microsoft continues to sort out its strategy for moving its Office Suite into the cloud, in concert with installations of Sharepoint or Office Communications Server or some other configuration. Meanwhile, companies plow ahead with their own solutions that are a mix-and-match set of PC-based, private cloud and public cloud-based resources.