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I first heard about this possibility at least two years ago and thought it was the neatest idea since sliced bread! And here it is! And free! For now.
The no-office diet
Can a modern computer user survive without an office suite, especially a user accustomed to using traditional, installed software? I've used Microsoft Word on every computer I've worked on since 1987. I know Word inside and out, and I have a library of Word files going back 19 years. But now, with the rise of AJAX and Web 2.0 technologies, and with more and more companies writing applications that are delivered directly over the Web, I'm wondering: Do I really need Word?
So I'm trying an experiment. I am writing this column on Writely, a free word processor that runs completely in a Web browser. Writely is not the only online word processor, but it's one of the most well known, and it was just acquired by Google. Google has closed new user registration for Writely while it is figuring out how to scale up the servers to handle Google-level traffic, but all existing users have 50 invitations they can give out. For a nice collection of other Web 2.0 applications, with reviews, see this page on IT|Redux. If you want to get started with an online word processor right away, Zoho Writer is worth experimenting with.
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| Posted: 05/02/2006 9:53 PM |
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Hehehe, I just tried it! It's works pretty darn good! I only did the demo and only a little bit. Was tempted to import a document from my HDD but not sure I can trust this things yet. If ever. LOL
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| Posted: 05/05/2006 12:37 PM |
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