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Google Docs and Office Live Workspace are online document repositories, which allow single users or groups to create and edit files such as word documents and powerpoint or slideshow files, from different locations.

Both applications provide browser based front end editing applications, which behave much like their microsoft office counterparts, require minimal downloads, and very little hard disk space as they do not require installation.

Some of the differences between the two are:

File Types:

Google Docs – allows a specific list of file types, including .docx, .ppt, .txt among others

Microsoft Office Live Workspace – allows every type of file, except for those which are blocked, due to security reasons

User Storage Size:

Google Docs – 5000 documents, 5000 images and 1000 spreadsheets

Microsoft Office Live Workspace – 500MB of total storage space

both applications allow for batch uploading, as well as single file uploads, file sharing and group collaboration, however, while Google’s collaboration may occur in real time, Microsoft’s works on a check in-check out system.