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Online Office Wars Continue Ajax vs Flash
| By Rich Tretola | June 15, 2009 | |
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Google Docs includes Documents, Presentations and SpreadSheet for onlne collabortation in an office type envoronment in a very intuitive and easy to use AJAX powered interface.
It provides a safe online space to work with your Microsoft Office Style documents including Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, and Microsoft Powerpoint document types.
It has become the standard for me in my collaboration needs as it easily allows the creation and storage of documents that I use often which require interactions with others.
Well, in addition to Adobe Buzzword (Word) and Adobe Presentations (Powerpoint), Adobe now adds Adobe Tables (Excel) to their online suite of Microsoft Office document editing and collaboration. Not surprisingly, Adobes online services are powered by the Adobe Flash Player. You can check out Adobe Tables beta here.
So, the only question that now remains is, will you do your Office document editing with AJAX, the Flash Player, or stay old school with desktop software?
Topics: Announcements, Flash Player, Flex | 2 Comments »
June 15th, 2009 at 10:00 pm
For now, I’ll stick with excel. It has the integration capabilities built into it. You can drive it from another app and do some unique stuff. I’ll watch the Flex stuff closely if they can provide an API to manipulate and retrieve the data.
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July 14th, 2009 at 8:45 am
I’m a little wary of everything that is web-based, so for now I think I’ll take my time and get used to the idea, while sticking to desktop, which happens to be excel. Maybe later.
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