Google Buys Quickoffice in Preemptive Microsoft Strike - walshculdrought78

In a move that could be designed to outflank Microsoft in the office productiveness app market, Google announced Tuesday it had acquired Quickoffice, a mobile app that allows users to work at Microsoft Office documents on iOS and Android systems.

Inside information of the deal were not made populace past the companies.

"Today, consumers, businesses and schools use Google Apps to get stuff done from anyplace, with anyone and on any gimmick," Google Engineering Conductor Alan Warren explained in a company blog. "Quickoffice has an established record of enabling seamless interoperability with popular file out formats, and we'll be working on bringing their powerful engineering science to our Apps ware suite."

Quickoffice Co-Founder and Chief operating officer Alan Masarek alleged the acquisition would allow his companion to open a new chapter in its development. "By combining the magic of Google's intuitive solutions with Quickoffice's powerful products, our common sight for anytime, anywhere productivity can only grow," he said in a statement.

The timing of the Quickoffice accomplishment is interesting, coming as buzz continues to build most a interpretation of Microsoft Power for the iOS, Android and Windows based tablets. That version of Office, though, isn't expected until November, which gives Google much lead time to enhance Quickoffice's market position, which is already a solid one.

The whim that Microsoft will be introducing Office for non-Windows tablets after this year has its skeptics, but this move by Google appears to beef up the case of those who argue that a pass over-platform version of Office is ineluctable. As Tony Bradley argued earlier this calendar month: "If users can't get a reliable Office go through, they may just abandon the productiveness entourage birthday suit and seek out Vane-based options like Google Docs."

How some more enticing would so much a go off be if Google can supplement the Web go through of its Docs product with a bullnecked mobile offering like-minded Quickoffice?

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