New Collaboration Extension for Word

Spotted this on CNET’s Webware blog, Rafe Needleman pretty much nails it with his comment:

To my mind, the killer feature of Google Docs is not that it is Web-based, per se. It’s that it makes real-time collaboration easy. You can invite a user into a document you currently have open, and you both can edit the file at the same time. It’s not a feature you’re going to need all the time, but when you’re on a deadline and need to get sign-off from one or more other person on a document right away, it’s a life-saver.

And I realised he was so right. Google Docs is nothing but a glorified notetaker and as an office application it really does suck, however what it does excel in is as an online collaborator.

Unfortunately Office Live doesn’t include real-time editing, so it’s great to hear about this new Office plugin Plutext which will provide very near real-time document editing right from within Word itself.

It’s so damn simple and it’s a shame Microsoft never picked up on this with their own Office Live addin.

This will be provided for companies so I’m not sure it’s going to be available as a free plugin or not, still got lots of work apparently but should be shipping by October. Expect more news about it by then =P

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