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I covered JotSpot and SocialText this week. Click the arrow button above to check out a short history of Web Office posts by Richard MacManus.
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Not sure if this was the first time I posted about Web Office, but it was certainly around this time (Aug/Sept 05) that I began to notice how many of these web-based office apps were popping up....
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This post remains to this day my most successful ZDNet post (thanks in large part to a Slashdotting). But it also seemed to be 'in the right time at the right place' in terms of capturing a new trend emerging - the Web Office.
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One year later and it's clear that Microsoft will over time create a fully Web-based office. The question is: how long will it take them?
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Things start to get interesting, as Microsoft announces Windows Live in November 2005.
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Microsoft CTO Ray Ozzie directly talks about Web Office
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Office Live (aka Office Lite) is a disappointment to most people expecting a more fully-featured Web Office offering.
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This is one of my better posts, outlining the 'best of breed' Web Office apps being developed by small vendors.
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Google gets into the act....
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This acquisition proved beyond doubt that Google is building a Web Office suite, coming so soon after the Google Calendar leaks.
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This is a must read if you want to understand how the current generation of Web Office startups is tackling Microsoft.
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One of my favorite phrases - web native. To be a true Web Office, you have to provide functionality that is native to the Web platform.
1. This is a great review of web office. Thanks
Posted at 03:07 on 2006-10-23 by
arub
2. I'm already using some of the Web Office stuff including web calendars. How else can I share calendars since I don't have a personal exchange server. But Ray Ozzie's comment about "Corporates" needing to adopt this technology is important. Why does the enterprise need to move in this direction?
Posted at 09:32 on 2006-10-23 by
pferrel
