While reading Ed Bott’s article about Microsoft’s partial preview of online office apps, this particular bit caught my eye:
Officially, Microsoft is positioning the new web-based offering as “online extensions to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote.”
Intriguing! It seems the OneNote bits won’t actually be available until the launch, so too soon to get too excited, but
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As promised in a September blog post, earlier this month we got a nice facelift for Google Docs spreadsheet. While looks aren’t everything, the facelift certainly is a good thing in spreadsheet’s case. It just “feels” more like a real app now, you know?
(and don’t get me wrong – I’ve been using the spreadsheet tool
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Zoho Docs was announced today and looks to be the glue that ties Zoho’s Writer, Sheet, Show and Chat services together. It also appears to have replaced Zoho Start. At least, when I click on the Start link I end up at Docs…
You can create folders. You can organize and tag files. You can
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I received a comment on my recent Firefox 3: Most Visited post the other day and it’s still sitting in the moderation queue as I wonder what to do with it. Most comments are easy to divide between spam and useful, but this one has caused me to stop and ponder.
It’s a link to a
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I requested and received my beta invite to Flowchart.com today. Seems like somebody has decided to challenge Gliffy in the online diagram space.
Long story short: I’m impressed. This is a pretty slick online application! I’d encourage folks to have a look — while it is in beta, I applied for and then received an
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