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By: Make You Go Hmm: » Microsoft Office is TOO expensive

Make You Go Hmm: » Microsoft Office is *TOO* expensive — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 16:46:15 +0000

[…] Outlook cheaper than using Gmail? No. Outlook more versatile than Gmail? Yes. Cheaper in value terms? Depends on what services are used and what problems are experienced. Word vs. Writely? (Writely is definitely cheaper than Word, but I’ll take and gladly pay for Word). Cheaper in user support? For geeks, maybe, but for Joe Consumer? No. Joe Business Owner? No. […]

By: » Microsoft Office OneNote Live InsideMicrosoft - part of the Blog News Channel

Wed, 24 May 2006 17:33:44 +0000

[…] Taking the ball from TDavid, I’ve posted on InsideGoogle my vision of an online version of OneNote, a program I already love in its offline version. I didn’t want any MS watchers to miss this, so I’m cross-posting: Yes, OneNote, the most innovative document editor program I’ve ever used, lets you do real-time collaborative document sharing and editing. Right now, it requires all participants to have copies of OneNote, but… […]

By: Make You Go Hmm: » Bye bye Word, what a crock

Make You Go Hmm: » Bye bye Word, what a crock — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 15:40:56 +0000

[…] And I don’t really need to cover the features and functionalities of AJAXwrite when I’ve already covered Writely. AJAXwrite does allow saving as a PDF file and doesn’t require registering or login, but there are more cons than pros if you step outside your own blazing broadband connection and think about the real world. […]

By: SEO Consultant Esoos Bobnar

SEO Consultant Esoos Bobnar — Tue, 14 Mar 2006 02:07:34 +0000

Writing About Writing About Writely

IrishWonder has a great case study on why people tend to do perhaps the laziest form of blogging (newsblogging) and the pros and cons involved. He bases the study around Google’s recent acquisition of the company that makes the Writely web-based word…

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Sat, 11 Mar 2006 23:21:26 +0000

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By: ActoNetwork

ActoNetwork — Fri, 10 Mar 2006 21:26:25 +0000

Google’s Acquisition of Writely is Disruptive

As you’ve probably heard by now Google has bought Writely.The obvious question is is this an MS Word killer? Lots of people are saying no (

By: » Writely, Ask.com, And Microsoft Office » InsideGoogle » part of the Blog News Channel

Fri, 10 Mar 2006 18:21:39 +0000

[…] Also, TDavid at Hmm has a lot of great insights on Writely, but my favorite part was where he explains that it is likely Microsoft already has a collaborative word processor in development, one that blows Writely out of the water. This doesn’t get me excited about buying any more GOOG stock and I doubt investors will see the Writely acquisition as any kind of significant threat to Microsoft. And even if some do, Microsoft is already building up Live so it wouldn’t surprise me if they had a Writely clone already in the hopper, something that works with Word and does more than Writely can ever do on the desktop without juice. Wait, they already have that. […]

By: Nathan Weinberg

Nathan Weinberg — Fri, 10 Mar 2006 17:14:15 +0000

Damn. OneNote Live. That’s a brilliant idea.