One of the main differences between Microsoft Office and other suites is the direct cloud connection. The ability to share documents via cloud storage (usually OneDrive) or sync between your devices.
Enter ‘Office365’ (no space) is based on LibreOffice Online to give you 20GB of cloud storage for document sync.
(Surely the might of Microsoft Legal will descend on the owners of ‘Office365’? It’s a cheeky name, but won’t last).
What’s interesting about ‘Office365’ (or whatever its eventually called) is talk of private servers. The developers have plans for software you can install on your computer host your documents privately. However, you can do that and a lot more already with BTSync.
If Office365 could match OneDrive’s ability to open the same document on different machine simultaneously then it would be a serious competitor. Great for anyone who doesn’t want their documents available to others in the ‘cloud.
Office365 is currently in beta.
