Monday, June 19, 2006
Online applications
A wiki post to ced534.wikispaces.com:
gOffice is a free online office application. Users can create, edit and save their files online. The site will allow saving as a pdf or html file back to your local drives. Future improvements are going to include import and export to and from Microsoft Word format files. The authors make their money when user click on ads within the site. They also sell internet appliances that business can purchase and use within their organization. The documents created on the gOffice site need to be kept simple since not all office functionality is available. One of the most noteable missing feature is the tab. If you need to line up text use simple tables which are supported.
AJAXlaunch is another player in the online office application but it does require firefox 1.5 to run. It is written with a new programming language calle AJAX. This project seems to be a little more complete than gOffice and provides a much more office like experience.
Any of these applications will be a great asset to student in education. the folks a gOffice clain in their FAQs they are not taking business from Microsoft. Outlook express is an email application available to windows users, there is still a place for webmail applications. In the end Microsoft, too, will need to provide online apps for all to enjoy. Like many other free programs schools may have the option to get advertisement free connections. More importantly, student will have access to the more expensive programs. The big downfall to these is they will tend to overlook the rural areas that don't have access to high speed broadband internet which will make applications in these forms difficult to use. Those users shouldn't forget about the open source programs like open office to create and edit their office type documents.
gOffice is a free online office application. Users can create, edit and save their files online. The site will allow saving as a pdf or html file back to your local drives. Future improvements are going to include import and export to and from Microsoft Word format files. The authors make their money when user click on ads within the site. They also sell internet appliances that business can purchase and use within their organization. The documents created on the gOffice site need to be kept simple since not all office functionality is available. One of the most noteable missing feature is the tab. If you need to line up text use simple tables which are supported.
AJAXlaunch is another player in the online office application but it does require firefox 1.5 to run. It is written with a new programming language calle AJAX. This project seems to be a little more complete than gOffice and provides a much more office like experience.
Any of these applications will be a great asset to student in education. the folks a gOffice clain in their FAQs they are not taking business from Microsoft. Outlook express is an email application available to windows users, there is still a place for webmail applications. In the end Microsoft, too, will need to provide online apps for all to enjoy. Like many other free programs schools may have the option to get advertisement free connections. More importantly, student will have access to the more expensive programs. The big downfall to these is they will tend to overlook the rural areas that don't have access to high speed broadband internet which will make applications in these forms difficult to use. Those users shouldn't forget about the open source programs like open office to create and edit their office type documents.
# posted by Medford Tech Team @ 9:11 PM 
