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By: Jarrett House North » Blog Archive » What’s that sound? It’s ajaxWrite knocking.

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 13:40:32 +0000

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By: aks

aks — Sat, 01 Jul 2006 08:10:54 +0000

It’s a good idea, but perhaps helps most those who are less intensive computer users.
I can’t imagine buying Office and if you can avoid lugging a laptop through airport security, I am all for it.
And I am all for Firefox, Openoffice, Thunderbird, Gmail.
Since we use applications to create documents to share with others, this trend will continue. Using (expensive) Office to create is one thing, then one must show it to others for editing or their own use with large email attachments, cds, floppies, etc. or actual paper and Fedex.

By: Herbert

Herbert — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 15:19:23 +0000

Say what you say about Microsoft and their programs. These newbies will not replace them in the business word/environment. Microsoft is too entrenched. Yes, the program is huge and may be bloated but it has all the features you need or may never need.

Casual users, students, etc. may use these programs. But there's got to be more than just basic word processing. Microsoft has many advanced features and in my work some of the basic things I use it for include: mail merge, linking excel spreadsheets into word, etc. The question is once these programs add more functions to the program, will it be as reliable? One thing big Micro has is years of working on the bugs.

By: Daniel Hedblom

Daniel Hedblom — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 09:46:10 +0000

I think the ajax technology is one of the greater things in recent times. Its simple to use, makes the web behaive like an application without using tons of clients and proprietary stuff like Java or .Net and whatnot.

If it takes off it will make a very nice distribution model for various applications that fit on the internet. Word processing is one that i think fit very well. Put in a conversion service for buggy/broken MS word documents and you have a revenue model. I also would love to see things like educational applications on the net. Those are dead simple to make but still distributed on disks, floppies and made in visual basic or even Dos format. A service with math apps and geography apps would be a direct market hit for all the schools running Linux or any other OS besides Windows.

I think Michael can make this fly if he delivers the apps with services on the side.

By: Palani

Palani — Sat, 25 Mar 2006 18:42:50 +0000

I did try AjaxWrite. It seemed to be working fine for just basic document preparation. I created a simple document, i tried the font changes, size changes, highlights, color everything seemed to work fine. I was having problem with alignments, i was not able to align certain sentences to middle and right handed alignment was also creating problem. I was just checking my datatransfer rate i see that definitely good amount of data transfer takes place and though Ajaxwrite claims its zero cost, everytime we try to use Ajaxwrite, we would still end up paying for the datatransfer cost.

By: Palani

Palani — Sat, 25 Mar 2006 18:06:15 +0000

Only the other day i was going through a post mentioning about bubble 2.0. Is a bubble really forming up for Web 2.0.? One thing is sure about all these products, Microsoft Office is a well proven application. To replicate its success and to convince people, it is surely going to take lot of time. More over, this is a doubt, if every time we happen to open an application from Net, wouldn’t our data transfer be High? Wouldn’t we end up paying higher connectivity charges unless we are subscribed to unlimited bandwidth? One observation is that these applications may play a role probably after another 3-5 years.

By: Guru

Guru — Fri, 24 Mar 2006 04:50:26 +0000

MS Word replacement !! no way. I would rather say it is close to Wordpad.

Everyone gets some pleasure by taking shots at MS or its products !

By: Shishank

Shishank — Fri, 24 Mar 2006 04:47:17 +0000

Do we have any online processor that gives synchronization feature with a local folder?

Its not even as mature as some others out in market. But good thing is that you do not require login.

@S
http://www.pcmspace.com

By: Unofficial WordPerfect Blog

Unofficial WordPerfect Blog — Fri, 24 Mar 2006 04:28:42 +0000

Trackback: Well hello, ajaxWrite: Another week, another Web 2.0 application. Seriously. Found via Om Malik's Blog (Meet Ajax Write), ajaxWrite is a web based word processor from…

By: Ashish

Ashish — Fri, 24 Mar 2006 00:50:47 +0000

First of all , i have everything AJAX. I dont want to know if a product/service is using AJAX or not. So they got the name all wrong.

Remember how .Com became a curse word after the bust, i can see the same with AJAX. Typical hype cycle.

By: hardcoreUFO

hardcoreUFO — Fri, 24 Mar 2006 00:00:55 +0000

ajaxWrite doesnt come close to Zoho Writer or Writely in features or usability. I could not even get the pull down menus to work. I dont see why anyone would use this application.

By: Christoph Wegener

Christoph Wegener — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 23:31:41 +0000

I haven’t seen anyone discussing ajaxwrite’s affiliation with linspire. (ajaxwrite.com is registered to Michael Roberston, Founder and Chairman of LinSpire)
Maybe the creators of “the world’s easiest Linux desktop” just need some advertising for the own product!?

By: Mike Rundle

Mike Rundle — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 22:38:04 +0000

I had to close the window as soon as I opened the website. My eyes…

By: Schrade.Blog

Schrade.Blog — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 21:50:59 +0000

AjaxWednesday, Pt. 1

So AjaxWrite is out today with a ton of coverage surrounding it. It's another Word clone written in Javascript, which I don't find entirely exciting, especially when compared to some of the competition.

The demo document when you open AjaxWrite do…

By: Harris Reynolds

Harris Reynolds — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 20:44:41 +0000

Trackback: Yet another… [Yawn] …web-based word processor was annouced today. While that isnt’ very interesting… what is interesting is the large quantities of unintended comedy found in Michael Robertson’s announcement…