September 24th, 2005
MS Office-clone online
ThinkFree has just released Office Online 3, which is a set of MS Office-clone apps (Write, Show and Calc – guess which apps they aim to emulate) that you can run online, i.e. without having to install them on your machine, and hence lets you run them on any platform that has a web browser, is online and runs java. Linux! Your PSP! Anything, nearly.
I’ve signed up for their free account that gives you 30MB’s of storage for free, which is more than ample facility for my Office-files. Let’s just see if I actually use this. The files are located on the host’s server, which is sort of a security-ish drag but never the less, it’s interesting and good, if you wanna show somebody an Office file and you don’t happen to have Office installed on some computer that’s online.
January 10th, 2006 at 16:26
[...] I’ve written about Office Online 3 before, a way to edit and store MS Office-compatible files online, through a web browser. Now, there’s Writely, another way to create, edit, store and convert MS Word-compatible files online. I haven’t tried it, but it looks interesting. Here’s the tour of the product. [...]
May 3rd, 2006 at 21:18
[...] The other day I received a voice-message in my mail-box thanks to Odeo, but mostly thanks to Jonathan Crow, Marketing Director at ThinkFree, a service that I wrote about in September. [...]
November 23rd, 2006 at 00:34
[...] I first wrote about this company a year ago, when their online MS Office-suite clone service was proffering free accounts, a mind-boggling 30MB of storage for every single user and an (at times) extremely sluggish interface. Today, the service brings 1GB of free space and collaborative features. And free accounts for all, yeay! [...]