Mathew Ingram writes an article titled “In sync with Zoho” at globeandmail.com. From his article :

Zoho … has been making some advances in one of the most crucial areas for Web-based software, and that is the ability to synchronize online documents and offline documents. This week, the company launched several plugins for Microsoft Office products that effectively allow users to save their desktop files in folders on Zoho’s servers, where they can be retrieved and worked on from any PC with an Internet connection.

In other words, if you are working at the office on Microsoft Word or Excel (but not PowerPoint as yet), you can save that document on your desktop PC — but at the same time you can also save it in a Zoho folder so that you can work on it at home or at another location. Zoho even offers desktop folder icons for its Web services so that you can simply drag a file over to a folder icon and have it automatically saved at Zoho.

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Thanks everyone! We had a very wonderful response for yesterday’s update. Particularly, everyone liked the Zoho Plug-in for Microsoft Office. And thanks to those who had blogged about it and for those who had sent us valuable feedback mails.

The update post we had didn’t have much on what the plug-in, the API and the desktopize widget do, but the bloggers did a very nice job of writing about it all. For those yet to get the whole picture of it all since the first report in TechCrunch, I’m quoting below excerpts of what the blogosphere had been saying about the update.

According to Huw at Gizbuzz, “Zoho blurs the line between web and desktop”.

… the plugin for MS Office and the Desktopize for Zoho releases are a clear attempt to blur the line between desktop and web apps.

With the office plugin release, Zoho is hoping that people will chose to store all their documents with them, and then when they don’t need collaboration they can use their desktop suite, and when they do they can switch into online mode.

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