http://nonsmokingarea.com/blog/2006/08/01/office-is-dead-5-google-writely/ michael kamleitner - web-consultant & -developer, vienna Sat, 17 Jul 2010 06:04:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://nonsmokingarea.com/blog/2006/08/01/office-is-dead-5-google-writely/comment-page-1/#comment-1202 nonsmokingarea.com » Blog Archive » office is dead? #5.1: Writely goes public Fri, 18 Aug 2006 09:03:58 +0000 http://nonsmokingarea.com/blog/?p=216#comment-1202 [...] as of today, Google re-opened public access to their online word-processor Writely (via TechCrunch). beta-access was closed down to invitation-only after Writely’s aquisition earlier this year. from what I can see, there haven’t been any changes in functionality since my review a few weeks ago, which means that Writely continues to be probably the best online-app for word-processing. however it means also, that Writely is still far from replacing desktop-apps like Microsoft Word. this is mainly because of the extremely reduced featureset, leading to screw-ups when importing existing documents which go beyond minimalistic formatting. don’t believe me? at least now you can try it out yourself [...] [...] as of today, Google re-opened public access to their online word-processor Writely (via TechCrunch). beta-access was closed down to invitation-only after Writely’s aquisition earlier this year. from what I can see, there haven’t been any changes in functionality since my review a few weeks ago, which means that Writely continues to be probably the best online-app for word-processing. however it means also, that Writely is still far from replacing desktop-apps like Microsoft Word. this is mainly because of the extremely reduced featureset, leading to screw-ups when importing existing documents which go beyond minimalistic formatting. don’t believe me? at least now you can try it out yourself [...]

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