Excellent Review of OpenOffice Online
Ars Technica today posted an excellent, well-illustrated review of the newly announced online version of OpenOffice offered by Ulteo.
The reviewer reports that the software, still in beta, successfully puts the full OpenOffice suite right inside our internet browsers. It is, by far, the most feature-rich of the online word processors. Its heft, however, makes the web application rather sluggish in response. Along with the software just clicks away on the internet comes one gigabit of online storage.
The review is not entire glowing. The application is faulted for total lack of collaborative features, such as those found in Google Doc’s and Zoho.
Still, the availability online of the popular open-source office suite will certainly please the followers of the software’s desktop version.
Is Microsoft worried about its dominance of the office suite market? Apparently not, and for good reason. It seems that almost no one is paying much attention to the online suites.
By coincidence, Download Squad today passed on information from a poll of 600 PC users [all in the US, I think} indicating that 73 percent had never heard of Google Doc’s, only 6 percent had ever tried it and only 0.5 percent used Microsoft’s online rival with regularity. Maybe, however, the arrival of OpenOffice online will move those figures appreciably.
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