This has been out for about a week, so you may have already heard, but if you haven't, this is pretty cool. Microsoft and Google have a history of not playing well together, but they do both seem to realize that being two of the biggest players in the software world they can't totally lock each other out. Google Drive has allowed in app editing of some MS Office files for some time now in what they call Office Compatibility Mode https://support.google.com/docs/answer/6055139?hl=en, but it isn't great especially if you are an Office power user. Now you can edit documents in Office and save them back to drive without the hassle of downloading and re-uploading. This may seem like a small thing, but anyone who has gone through the process knows that the extra time it takes might just make someone create and edit their document in Google Docs instead of Microsoft Word. As far as I can tell, you still can make your changes in real time or work collaboratively (in fairness Microsoft does have their own product to do this without Google) when using the Drive plugin for Office, although it is still pretty interesting.
http://googleappsupdates.blogspot.com/2015/07/google-drive-plug-in-for-microsoft.html?m=1
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