On 11/14/05, Robin Laing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I was talking about this today with one of our IS people. Simple > answer is it won't work for many and a pain for others. My > Mother-in-law does allot of writing. Even though she has DSL, she > only connects when she is browsing. She uses a USB connection instead > of the network connection. > > I would hate to be that student working on my term paper that needs to > be handed in tomorrow when the network connection goes down due to a > problem with one of the many hops that I have to work through. > > It is easier to download OOo and get to work. Heck, I can take my > laptop anyplace and work. Forget about having to find a wireless link. >
I don't think anyone's talking about removing the "offline edition" of OOo. If Sun ever tried it, someone would fork OOo, and keep it "local". I'm just talking about offering a different way of accessing OOo. Maybe it won't truly be OOo. Maybe it wouldn't have much to do with OOo at all, except ODF would be one of the formats you can use, (along with PDF, MSO, RTF, TXT, CSV, etc.). Something like Writely, but with a spreadsheet and presentation mode. Or maybe an online Abiword. I dunno. I'm just thinking that online apps are becoming more and more popular, (and, no, it didn't take Bill Gates to convince me of that). AJAX, Blogger, Flickr, Google Maps, Writely, WorkSpot, CoolText.com (an online logo-maker that uses GIMP to make whatever logo you want), etc. These all had me convinced before Gates said this. Check the archives if you doubt this. My point in posting this link was to let everyone know where MS is headed. -- - Chad Smith http://www.gimpshop.net/ Because everyone loves free software!
