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Seattle startup has done what two giant companies haven’t done: get Google Docs to work well with Microsoft’s Office software. OffiSync, a self-funded startup run by entrepreneur Oudi Antebi, has created an Office add-on that integrates Google Docs, Google Apps and Google search into Microsoft office. When you open up Microsoft Word, for instance, you can see the Google functions on the menu, as if they were a Google toolbar. The software will be available as a beta download today. Microsoft is slowly moving in this direction. It has promised to integrate software and services into the Office suite by 2010 to give the desktop software more features that make it seem like a cloud-based solution . When Antebi heard that was the plan a year ago, he decided to hire a bunch of contractors and do it himself. “We are Googleizing Microsoft Office,” he said in an interview.   OffiSync works with Microsoft Office 2003 or Office 2007, and it will be available for the Mac in the...

The new suite of web applications will massively extend the reach of Office 2010, but is it enough to make businesses upgrade? ________________________________________________________________________________ Stephen Elop, president of the Microsoft Business Division, introduces new capabilities for Office 2010 at the Worldwide Partner Conference 2009 Microsoft is finally putting versions of its Office applications suite online, as part of its move to Office 2010. The new Office Web Applications, demonstrated on video, don't have all the capabilities of desktop versions, but do feature the ribbon-based user interface. They seem to be far more powerful than Google's three-year-old online applications, and should offer much better compatibility with Microsoft Office files. The suite of Office Web Applications - Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote - will be available to consumers, free of charge, as part of Microsoft's Windows Live service, which has more than 40...