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Online Document Sharing and Storage

Background

A new range of online applications is appearing for the management of documents in the cloud. This makes cooperation between writers a breeze and enable native features such as sharing.

Recommendation

Our first recommendation is for Office Live Workspace. This service from Microsoft is free of charge and works really well. The notion of workspace makes it easier to organize the shares and the service interfaces very well with Office, as you would expect.

Now this is great if you have Office but, if you don’t, we then recommend Google Docs. This service has a similar feature set although with the very notable addition of providing the support for creating and editing documents, something Microsoft is only starting to release as beta (Microsoft Office Web Apps). We find Google docs very easy to use and powerful for simple documents. It however lacks advanced editing capabilities.