About Anything » zoho http://www.alstevens.org The personal blog of Al Stevens. Focus is overrated. Sun, 07 Mar 2010 20:17:22 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Into the cloud — office apps first http://www.alstevens.org/2009/04/09/office-apps-first/ http://www.alstevens.org/2009/04/09/office-apps-first/#comments Thu, 09 Apr 2009 22:10:34 +0000 Al Stevens http://www.alstevens.org/2009/04/09/into-the-cloud-plan-of-attack/ Since office apps are ones that get used a lot, and could be a make or break for this project, I’m starting with them. I’ve already experimented with Google Docs. For simple documents of a few pages, they’re fine. I’ve produced a few 3-5 page word docs, spreadsheets with a few cells and simple presentations.

Earlier in the week, I signed up for zoho and imported a 4-page word doc and a simple power point slide. I also created a simple 1-page, 100 cell spreadsheet. Overall it looks a lot more powerful than Google Docs.

Microsoft has announced web versions of their office apps, but it’s hard to believe they are serious. Besides, they aren’t going to be available until later this year.

My next step will be to take a hard look at Zoho’s word app. …but it’s late, I need to head home, heavy laptop in my bag. And the evening is spoken for. Tomorrow I’ll begin.

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