Wednesday, October 11th, 2006
Office 2.0: Google and Zoho Announcements
Category: Showcase
The web “Office” applications are here. At the Office 2.0 conference we saw two announcements in the office arena:
Google Docs and Spreadsheets
Catchy name aside, Google Docs now combines Writely and Spreadsheets in one. With it you can:
- Use our online editor to format documents, spell-check and more.
- Upload Word documents, OpenOffice, RTF, HTML or text.
- Download documents to your desktop as Word, PDF and more.
- View your documents’ revision history and roll back to any version.
- Invite others to share your documents by e-mail address.
- Edit documents online with whomever you choose.
- Publish documents online to the world, or to just who you choose.
- Post your documents to your blog.
Here we see the Google suite slowly getting together.
Zoho Virtual Office
Zoho has had a ton of services in the past. Now they have announced ZohoX, their virtual office suite, that brings them all together. The apps include Email, Calendars, Documents, Tasks, Notes, Contacts,Groups and a lot more.
Have you played with these? What do you like or not like?
4.9 rating from 27 votes
A good start ahead towards Google Web Office but zoho virtual office is sure a future challange for google
Google Office out now, oops! its Google Docs
http://googlelogs.blogspot.com/2006/10/google-office-out-now-oops-its-google.html
I haven’t played with ZohoX but now I can’t wait to!
I like the zoho user interface. It’s feels much more fancy.
I’ve been a fan of ThinkFree Office for awhile. It offers Office-compatible word processing, spreadsheets, and presentation, a generous 1GB of free online storage, and a choice of a quick AJAX UI and a more comprehensive Java UI for editing each document type.
[...] I have been testing the new Zoho Virtual Office (ZohoX) and am now ready to post about it. In reading original hype-o-ganda pertaining to it and the Office 2.0 Conference, I became under the impression that they were integrating Zoho Writer, Zoho Sheet, and Zoho Show into it (i.e. files all saved to VO filesystem, no cheap inline frames, etc.), but I couldn’t be more mistaken. [...]