Re:Ask HN: What The Hell Does Sharepoint Do?
by thwarted on Thursday October 15, 2009 @11:35AM
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I've experienced that very limitation from people when it comes to online document editing and maintenance. However, my experience with how those kinds of people use Sharepoint is still compatible with Googledocs: create a document with Word or Excel, then upload it into shared storage where the document goes to die because they never edit or use the document again. Google docs supports this workflow, uploading a Microsoft Office document which gets converted. Now that I think about it, can you upload a document to replace the one that is currently there in GD? I'll have to test that. That would negate the I-can-only-learn-one-thing-and-that-one-thing-was-microsoft-office mentality.
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Re:Ask HN: What The Hell Does Sharepoint Do?
by ahpeeyem on Thursday October 15, 2009 @12:31PM
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True, but with Google Docs the uploading step is extra; you can open files and save them right inside the file open/save dialogs in Word and Excel if Sharepoint's setup properly.
If something could map say a "My Google Docs" folder under My Documents it would be the same; so you can just go into Word and open a file up for editing.
Personally I'd rather just open my browser, but hey I've used several word processors as well :P