Adobe’s acquisition of Virtual Ubiquity, announced today, and Microsoft’s unveiling of Office Live Workspace bring yet more attention to online office apps. Whether online alternatives will entirely replace heavyweight desktop suites like MS office or OpenOffice.org remains to be seen. What is clear is that there’s a ton of interest in the possibilities — at least from startups if not actual users.
Online office apps can be convenient, especially for our increasingly lightweight content creation tasks or for when you need to collaborate with people you don’t work with often. Charlene Li uses Google Docs & Spreadsheets for everything from summer camp planning to tracking client work to managing an after-hours music jam. I like my online word processor for sharing documents (easier than mailing Word docs around) and my online spreadsheet for tracking my time and work on consulting projects.
What are your favorite uses of online office suites? Do you foresee ditching your desktop office apps for online alternatives?
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