Instacoll live documents

The folks of Microsoft have rarely impressed us with their online applications, but this time might be different. Live Documents, created by Sabeer Bhatia of Hotmail fame, has one huge advantage over every other online office suite - it looks exactly like Microsoft Office 2007, and Office is by far the most often used desktop office package out there. Most people, when they think of writing something on their computer or creating a table, instantly think of Office, and that’s a comparative advantage that everyone would like to have. Now, I must admit that the fact that Live Documents is not developed by Microsoft, but by Bhatia’s company InstaColl, is very confusing. ***

Today web-based word processor Zoho Writer moves further into Microsoft Word’s territory with the announcement of offline editing capabilities. Zoho enabled offline read-only review of documents in August. With features like this, Zoho’s office apps might someday entirely replace Microsoft Office in the toolbox of many web workers. But other online word processors take what looks like a complementary approach. For example, recently-announced Live Documents integrates web-based editing and collaboration with Microsoft Office using an “ ***

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