GDocs vs. ThinkFree vs. Zoho vs. MS Office

CWmike writes "Web-based productivity suites, once almost a contradiction in terms, have become real challengers to desktop applications. Google Docs, ThinkFree, and Zoho, have all made major improvements in recent months. They're becoming both broader, with more applications, and deeper, with more features and functionality in existing apps. The question is: Are these three applications really ready to take on a desktop-based heavy hitter like Microsoft Office?"

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Twitter has a long way to go to be the most infamous poster on slashdot. The worst and hence most infamous trolls on slashdot are the paid to post losers. If you pay attention to them you can even start to readily recognise the different sources. Generally the better ones are sitting in tech company offices posting whilst at work with a distinct bias to their place of work. Next up are a swag of US government propagandist, from better to worse, US government intelligence agencies (NSA>FBI and bottom of the barrel CIA), US government military (air force> navy>army and bottom of the barrel the marines) and of course the worst of the worst party political hacks (democrats>libertarians and bottom of the barrel republicans). However it is all a part of slashdot and not too bad as long as it is somewhat amusing.

Back to topic, this was bound to be a pretty inflammatory topic and overall does not really make much sense as it is two comparisons at once, web served office applications versus local office applications and of course for the second part you really need to compare just off line office applications. Low cost hardware and storage getting cheaper every day along with free quality office suits really makes putting up with the hassles of web based office applications a pretty pointless exercise as you need to pay for additional hardware to connect to the net as well as of course paying for your internet connection. Big point in computer security, if you need absolutely need to connect work computers to the internet then do so, however in you can possibly avoid it then simplify your network security and just don't do it.

Oh, and yeah and, you are a bad person and a crappy slash dotter if you mod a person down, rather than just particularly poor postings.