No, the online storage company does not enter the race to compete with Google, Zoho, ThinkFree and the like… what they did was a further step to providing seamless offline/online access to MS Office documents. Office On Demand is a plug-in that will place an icon on your MS Office toolbars, which will allow to directly save your Microsoft documents to your box.net account. This makes it even more convenient to later access your documents from any other PC that has the MS Office Suite installed.
In fact for .doc and .xls files you don’t even need MS Office – thanks to the recently announced Zoho integration, just right-click, select “Edit Document” and work on it online, using Zoho Writer or Sheet. Your document can still be saved in proper MS format.
The new beta plug-in is compatible with Word, Powerpoint, Excel, and Access both in 2007 and 2003 (and XP/Vista).
Perfect Combination: The collaborative features of the web suites with the power of Office ’07. Yay!
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