Shared G Suite documents can be edited in iOS and Android via the native mobile apps and in Windows, MacOS, and Chrome OS via a browser. Shared Office documents can be edited in Windows, MacOS, iOS, and Android via the native Office apps on those platforms or via a desktop browser on a PC or Mac. Shared iWork documents can be edited only in a Windows PC or Mac browser, or in iOS or MacOS via an iWork app. IWork has sharing support for Android users, but they can only view shared documents. In all three cases, editing requires that the recipient have the appropriate account (iCloud for iWork, Office 365 for Office, or Google Drive for G Suite). In recent years, the innovation has been in collaboration.Īll three suites support document sharing: You can invite people to open a document for viewing or for editing (your choice), or you can send them a hyperlink to that shared document. Productivity functionality such as editing and formatting have been pretty stable since the late 1990s, so the differences are more about what the vendors choose to support rather than about innovation.

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