Zoho, those creators of funky web based office apps, will be announcing offline functionality for Zoho Writer their word processor tool today. This may be the first on/offline office app of it's type.
The functionality has been built with Google Gears. That's a huge smack in the face for Google as they should have been first with this kind of offline functionality for their own Google Docs, not letting a competitor use their own technology to beat them to it. Users will need to install a plugin to allow the offline functionality, but that's it, really simple.
Read-only functionality is coming first for the offline users. Read/write will be added in a number of weeks and thats the killer app.
Zoho are constantly one step ahead of Google and other online office tool providers. Google et al need to step up a gear and launch some serious innovation if they are to catch up (functionality wise that is).
Here's a video presentation about the functionality:
Edit: Zoho have now released the functionality and posted on their blog about the features.
1 comments:
Steve : Thanks! The update's over and please try the new features.
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