“With this plugin, you can use the apps you’re already comfortable with, while benefitting from the security and convenience of Google Drive,” Kuhn said. In the productivity space, though, Google is all but admitting defeat. The company that launches product after product to disrupt Microsoft. Box lets you create and edit Office Online files, while Dropbox has brought collaboration features right into Microsoft Office for Windows and Mac.īut this is Google we’re talking about. This plugin simply requires Office for Windows.īox and Dropbox have taken similar approaches to Microsoft’s stranglehold on the workplace.
Yet that required using Google’s browser and the Google Drive app for Windows, in addition to Microsoft Office. Google says this is part of Google Drive’s “open approach” and points to a feature that arrived in November: a Chrome extension for opening Google Drive files in the right desktop app.
