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17 Web Based Competitors to MS Office

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the wildly-flailing-for-vc dept.

prostoalex writes "Red Herring magazine takes a look at 17 projects in the Web 2.0 space competing with Microsoft Office for the attention of the office workers worldwide. The table lists Thinkfree, Zoho Writer, Writeboard, Google Writely, Rallypoint and JotSpot Live as Microsoft Word competitors, JotSpot Tracker, Numsum, iRows, Zoho Street as Microsoft Excel alternatives, S5, Zoho Show as PowerPoint contenders, ThinkFree, gOffice and Zoho Virtual Office as suite offerings. Even Microsoft Project has its fair share of Web 2.0 competitors: Basecamp and JotSpot Project Manager made the list."

2 of 153 comments (clear)

  1. They missed... by The+MAZZTer · · Score: 4, Informative

    Google Spreadsheets

  2. OOo at home and on the run by Lord+Fury · · Score: 3, Informative

    When I'm at home, OpenOffice does everything I need. When I'm anywhere else, I always use Portable OpenOffice from my flash drive.