Zoho Office News & Articles

This post comes straight to you from collaboration corner, where Zoho (news, site) and Microsoft SharePoint are sitting together like two peas in pod. 

Aiming to bridge the gap between popular productivity applications and traditional, in-house office solutions, the pair recently announced a new plug-in that lets Zoho Office users work with Zoho online collaborative productivity applications to create, view, and edit files stored in Microsoft SharePoint.

Ever feel the itch to edit a Zoho Writer doc while offline? Now you can.

“People want to take their online documents offline, and we’re going to make that experience as smooth and simple as possible,” gushes Zoho-vangelist Raju Vegesna. “Going forward, we’ll be extending offline read/write functionality to our other applications.”

Zoho’s suite of hosted office tools has been favorably (and endlessly) compared to Google Apps, its reining competitor au marché.

Catch the Zoho Offline editing demo.

Pagination and header/footer support were also brought to Zoho Writer just days ago.

Microsoft just can’t get any peace. With Google Apps eroding the need to own a copy of Microsoft Office, and Zoho improving where Apps leaves off, the Word/Excel monopoly may be fast seeing sundown.

And the end may be sooner than expected, now that Adobe’s announced it’s going to purchase Virtual Ubiquity, the company that produces an offering called Buzzword.