ThinkFree Office Online

by Joshua Porter  |   September 8th, 2005  |  shortlink: http://bokardo.com/p/205

The next wave of applications will be web-based. Many will be online equivalents to what we have on the desktop. In recent months the push has been toward applications that mirror Microsoft Office: made up of a word processor, spreadsheet, and presentation programs.

ThinkFree Office is in Beta, written with Java, and pretty darn robust.

You can try out the apps, too:

Write | Show | Calc

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1.  Jeff Watkins 4:15pm, Fri 9th, 2005

I’m not certain this sort of thing will ever catch on. It took forever to load even on my 1.6GHz PowerBook. When I want to write something, I want to write something *now*.

Then, when I wanted to erase the contents of the default document, I pressed Cmd-A to select all. What I got instead was the entire contents of the Web page selected rather than the contents of the Applet (which were non-selected).

Nice demo `though.

2.  Josh K 5:25am, Tue 13th, 2005

Actually, the second time around the software runs a lot faster because it is cached on the computer. It is bit slow on Mac. Then again everything seems to be slow on Mac. I am using it on my Windows PC and PowerBook. I must say I am pretty impressed.

3.  Junior Z 11:45pm, Mon 3rd, 2005

I think it’s a great idea but I can’t make it run on my PB w/Tiger. There seems to be a problem with Java or something. I’ve tried with Safari, FireFox and IE. The thing jus won’t load on my browser.

Any ideas?

How did you make it work?

thanks

4.  Josh 8:50am, Tue 4th, 2005

Junior: I got it to work on my PB w/Tiger. It took a long time to load…do you have the latest Java update installed? Perhaps it needs that.

5.  Joe 10:10am, Tue 11th, 2005

It works well on my Windows/IE platform but it took me forever to load from Firefox. Certainly it requires the most updated Java runtime to get things loaded.
Tried a little bit I am quite impressed, import/export, pdf saving, etc are all working on my system.