Live Documents: Microsoft Office super-sync

Live Documents sounds like what a lot of business users have been waiting for. The service is free during the beta, and syncs your Word and Excel documents between all users working on it. All you do is install the plug-in, then create and send documents to your colleagues via email. When you or they make changes, Live Documents syncs all the changes between everyone working on the document. I should hope Microsoft will either buy this company and use the technology in office or develop something as simple as this for Office. I've heard rumors on Microsoft building a Windows Live interface for this purpose, but I haven't seen any hard details on it yet. The Live Documents website has a lot more information on this service and how to get started. Other programs besides Word and Excel should be able to use the service soon via a toolbar. Check it out.

[Via TechCrunch]

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