Investigating Online Office Suites

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Friday January 19, 2007 @09:52AM from the because-working-is-that-much-better-away-from-the-office dept.

jcatcw writes "Computerworld reviewed four online office suites — Ajax13, Google Docs & Spreadsheets, ThinkFree Online and Zoho Office Suite. None has all the applications and features of Microsoft Office, but if you're looking for the core office applications in an access-anywhere format, at least two were surprisingly sophisticated. The article weighs the ability to save files to a centralized server quite heavily in its ranking. The winner is ThinkFree Office because it provides the most sophisticated features and has the best Microsoft Office compatibility. Zoho's suite is the second choice."

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Google Docs and Spreadsheets by klenwell · 2007-01-19 10:00 · Score: 5, Interesting

I've been satisfied with Google D&S, mostly because it's now well integrated (bundled?) with my Gmail account. Then I tried to print a hard copy of a Google Doc for the first time yesterday. Now I'm less impressed. (Google's definition of a 'pt' and Word's are way off.)

Still, the sharing feature is cool. But the Gmail integration is the main reason I'm loathe to try any alternatives.

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