On 11/10/05, Shawn K. Quinn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, 2005-11-09 at 11:31 -0500, Chad Smith wrote: > > It seems MS is more worried about Writely - http://www.writely.com/ - > than > > it is about OpenOffice.org. > > Really? They can't be *too* worried about it, after all, the first thing > I got upon visiting was an ASP.NET <http://ASP.NET> session cookie.
Just because Writely uses .NET doesn't mean Microsoft gets anything out of it. .NET can be developed without giving MS a dime. The point is, Writely, Google, et. al. are offering services online that previously you had to have Windows and Office to use. In fact, the new "Windows Live" - http://www.live.com/ - is a complete rip off of Personalized Google - http://www.google.com/ig/ . After looking more carefully at the Office Live website, It seems that they are not going to provide an online version of Office (as the name would suggest) but a set of online applications, as well as a hosted website, for businesses, that intregrates with Microsoft Office software. This actually goes back to my request for a blogger button on OOoWriter. > That's not a slam against OOo, merely a suggestion that a online version > of > > OOo (like, perhaps, the one Google is developing) would be a good idea > right > > about now. > > Maybe, maybe not. I wouldn'twant everything I do with a word processor > to be routed through Google. Maybe you wouldn't but a lot of people would. As evidenced by the success of .Mac, Blogger, Gmail, Writely, Flickr, and other online storage/service sites. Being able to get to may data, no matter where I am, what computer I use, what OS it's running, what software it does or doesn't have... That's very attractive. As long as the data is sercure, and all I need is an Internet connection, user name and password to get to my data, it sounds like a winner to me. Of course, I won't keep *everything* online, but there are some things I'd like to have access to no matter what. -- - Chad Smith http://www.gimpshop.net/ Because everyone loves free software!
