office is dead? #5.1: Writely goes public
Posted on | August 18, 2006 | 2 Comments
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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August 19th, 2006 @ 5:04 pm
Writely might be the best app for trivial word-processing but it doesn’t come close to making the grade for WYSIWYG blog editing. See http://oakleafblog.blogspot.com/2006/08/writely-beta-finally-opens-with-thud.html.
August 19th, 2006 @ 7:33 pm
thx for your comment – as I’ve written, being the best online-word-processor doesn’t really mean very much. I like your post, though I wouldn’t compare online-apps like writely to desktop-apps like WLW or Qumana.