Microsoft and Adobe respond to Google Docs
Aim goes, as much Marinates like Microsoft have chosen today like the day to present/display its alternative to the ofimática online that allows to share documents of Google Docs. Marinate has bought the Virtual company Ubiquity, creator of BuzzWord, constructed on his technology (Flex). In addition has announced Share, from that the users will be able to select the documents that they want to share, with whom and if they make its files of public access (PaidContent). The Share de Adobe has many similarities with Scribd, youtube of the ofimática, when allowing to absorb documents in blogs and other pages through widget Flash. More information in PaidContent. While Microsoft not to duer itself to me in the land of the ofimática. Lately they begin to him to grow the dwarves (Google, OpenOffice, Zoho, IBM) and announces Office Live Workspace, gratuitous tool online and that will allow to store, to visualize and to share documents of its Office, but not to publish them online. The idea is that from the own Microsoft Office we pruned to store documents in Office Live Workspace, to share them and to accede to them from other equipment. The plasmación in the ofimática of its philosophy of software more services. At the moment closed beta, speaks to include publicity and of the future possibility to add edition online, but there will be no of the two things in the beginning. Office Live Workspace happens to be the new name of Office Live, that was not ofimática Web either and it does not stop being “sharepoint” protected with passwords. More information in LiveSide. Movements very very interesting in the land of the ofimática. Both share that they offer clients in the writing-desk (Office de Microsoft and a version on AIR in the case of Marinates) to offer one better experience and support offline, aspects in which improve to Google Docs. Their weak points are that BuzzWord still does not have client, whereas the proposal of Microsoft does not allow to publish from the Web, although personally would not discard that in the future they present/display something based on Silverlight. While, Google Docs seems something stopped, without to have made appearance its integration with Gears that allows its operation connectionless.
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