Itsy bitsy company offers web-based competition for Microsoft Word

17 April 2009 | 7:55 - By Stefano Boscutti

Recognition of the internet has been slow in coming to the Redmond brigade. Microsoft is finally preparing Web versions of its Office suite, though these are intended as supplements, not as replacements.

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The company maintains that web versions of a Word or Excel will never match the functionality and responsiveness that software installed on one’s own machine provides. Granted, Microsoft’s largest competitor, Google, has not yet marched up to the bulwarks guarding Microsoft Office and blown a gaping hole into its adversary’s complacency. Google Apps, its Office-like suite, contains an uneven bunch of services. But the best online word processor, however, may be the one from a tiny company, Zoho, a nimble innovator. Zoho Writer is running close enough to Word to imagine that it and other online word processors will be able to do most everything that Word can do, and more.  Hello, it's the future knocking.  Can I come in?

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/05/business/05digi.html

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