I think just about every tech blogger has, at some point, chided Google for letting competitors (such as Zoho) beat them to offline document access and editing. For instance, when I mentioned Zoho Writer offline access back in November I harped a bit…
Today, the Google Docs blog announced “Bringing the Cloud With You.” This
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Three months ago, the Zoho folks announced an offline mode for Zoho Writer. While nifty and all, it was essentially read-only and not quite as useful as I might’ve hoped. You could sync your Zoho docs offline for access, but not change anything. (Zoho Show would benefit greatly from this!)
They raised the bar
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Earlier today Zoho announced the addition of an “offline mode” to Zoho Writer. What’s particularly interesting about this announcement is that they did it via Google Gears, so they beat Google itself to an offline offering — with their own product!
However…
Not really. The thing to keep in mind here is that while this new
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The new Google Toolbar (beta 3 I think) was very recently released. It introduces some new features, with one that should be pretty interesting to the online office folks. In fact, that new feature even got its own blog post at the Google Docs & Spreadsheet blog titled, “Dragging and Dropping.”
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Folks are always encouraged to be cautious with attachments on email, but if you’re using MS Word you want to be extra cautious. Microsoft has published a security advisory titled, “Vulnerability in Microsoft Word Could Allow Remote Code Execution.” Here are the high points:
Microsoft is investigating a new report of limited “zero-day” attacks
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