Comments on: Office 2.0 is not about online spreadsheets!

By: Gordon Montgomery

Gordon Montgomery — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 14:48:10 +0000

Maybe there is a hybrid solution out there that will work on my desktop on the few occasions when I really have no internet access and really want to do something in excel and then it would sync back up to my web version when I’m back within 100 feet of a wireless connection…like in Ghana for example…(meaning: more of the world is getting connected wirelessly than us here in the ‘developed’ western world)

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By: stephen o'grady

stephen o'grady — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 02:30:52 +0000

"I just don't see the incentive to have an online word processor or spreadsheet."

"But that's ok - because replacing desktop applications is NOT what Office 2.0 is about.

It's about Collaboration. Community. Sharing. Give me better ways to work on something with a team."

what if you wanted to collaborate on a spreadsheet with a team?

you're right that it's not about replacing Office - it's great for a specific set of tasks.

but that doesn't mean that online documents and spreadsheets are not equally perfect for a different set of tasks.

By: Yori Nelken

Yori Nelken — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 23:43:52 +0000

Couldn’t agree more. And talking about airplanes and offline – Boeing announced it is scrapping its in-flight high speed broadband service because of lack of interest from leading airlines. We are moving backwards at this point :-(

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Life is grand » Updating your spreadsheet anywhere — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 16:03:19 +0000

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By: daniela barbosa

daniela barbosa — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 04:51:21 +0000

Hi Greg. i am a subscriber to your blog and a big fan of what you folks have done for RSS in the enterprise space. If you are around tommorrow at the conference, i would love to meet you.

i look like this mostly but am a bit shy:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/11765756@N00/144862128/

By: Doug Ransom

Doug Ransom — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 03:21:21 +0000

"Who doesn't love seeing super ajaxy applications? "

People who aren't coders. AJAX is a fine technology to deliver a substandard user experience as an alternative to no user experience at all when:
- users are away from their own computing environment
- their computing environment is restricted.

Programmers like ajax. Users prefer rich apps. That is why they fork out additional cash over their newsgator subscribtions to buy NetNewsWire.

Kudos to Microsoft for inventing AJAX (if not the acronym) to solve some specific problems -- but AJAX is a workaround around restrictive computing environments.