when will Microsoft release a free, ad-supported online version of their office-suite? will it be called Office Live? and will it happen before Google’s lightweight office-apps finally include a featureset that will be a sufficient replacement for mainstream-users? a – though quickly altered – blog-post from within Microsoft leads to new speculation at TechCrunch.
Freebase – [...]
Adobe Apollo/Flex continues to dominate this weeks tech-news with two – though distant – product announcements.
Virtual Ubiquity is aiming for a public beta-release of their Flex-based word-processor BuzzWord (Screenshot courtesy of GigaOM) in summer 2007. thanks to Apollo, BuzzWord will run both on- and offline, which puts it way ahead of Google Docs. it’ll be [...]
back from London and the first thing I notice is Techmeme overly cluttered with news about Google, which finally did what so many have expected and demanded in the past: launched feb 21st, Google Apps Premier is a subscription-based, corporate version of the application package launched in late summer 2006, including the already well-known Gmail, [...]
according to Read/WriteWeb, Firefox 3 will offer support for running web-applications offline. though it’s not yet clear on which level this might happen, this is major news for providers of service-based web-software. the biggest advantage of online-apps – using them on any device with net-access with no need to sync data – is at [...]
Zoho adds another feature to its online office-suite (read my previous review). Zoho Notebook allows users to collect web-snippets, images, notes, flash-based video, RSS-feeds and documents from other Zoho-applications in a single place. currently not available to the public, Zoho Notebook supports collaborative access and will be controlled by Firefox- & IE-plugins.
Nexo is an easy-to-use, [...]
trying to use Google Docs & Spreadsheets as fulltime replacement for Microsoft/Open Office on my secondary computer, I’m running into all sorts of shortcomings every day. opening an excel-spreadsheet containing several sub-sheets (but otherwise quite barebones) lead me to the error-message pictured below … I wonder why it’s limited to 20 sheets in particular, [...]
I haven’t been using online collaboration- & email-suite Zimbra until now, but todays announcement sure sounds interesting: Zimbra is about to receive a local cache-feature, which will allow users to access email even when being offline – auto-syncing included. however, the official blog-entry doesn’t go into detail on how this will be implemented. recently introduced [...]
Philipp Lenssen from Google Blogscoped reports the recent integration of Google Spreadsheets into Gmail. when receiving xls-attachments, Gmail users are now given a direct link to open such files in Google Spreadsheets. a similar feature for Word-documents / Google Docs (ex Writely) is still missing but almost certain to follow soon.
with the current hailstorm of news on upcoming web-office initiatives by Google and others, one might easily be tempted to forget about what that particular company in Redmond is going to do about all that. tonight, Marshall Kirkpatrick from TechCrunch (down-to-earth) and Steve Gillmor (way-beyond) both give us an appropriate reality-check about what to expect [...]
the official Google blog just has announced the aquisition of JotSpot, a well-known player in the market of collaborative wiki- & online-office products reviewed some time ago. as for the deal, I’m not sure what to make of it: while few key-modules of JotSpot (spreadsheets, word processing) are already part of Google’s web-office offering (in [...]
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