Zoho - Office 2.0
Nikhil Rastogi, Dec 09, 2007 1137 hrs IST
Is this the future of Office?
Offline Support
Zoho recently introduced offline support for its beloved Writer app. This means that you can download files off Zoho servers on to you own HDD and then auto sync using Google Gears which you'll need to download (See Applications you need for offline support). You'll need to go to http://writer.zoho.com/offline when not connected to the Internet.
A much more elegant solution is the add-on for Microsoft Office which can be found here. It allows one to enable syncing facility directly from Microsoft Office to Zoho under a new menu item "Add-ons". This amazingly works with both, Microsoft Word as well as Excel.
Conclusion
Though we unfortunately couldn't find the time to review everything that Zoho has to offer, we'd like to bring to your attention the fact that online applications are a difficult horse to review. This is because these are forever evolving (which is great from user point, a nightmare for a reviewer). By the time this review goes up, you'd probably see that some of the things mentioned here have changed, for the better (I hope). Nevertheless it's a beast that must be dealt with.
All said and done, "the best things in life are free" and so is Zoho. Zoho is an extremely mature, well-designed, and a fairly responsive product. Of course, it cannot replace Microsoft Office yet, but is certainly on the way to do so with growing offline support. For most people don't really care about the bloated complexities that Microsoft Office has, Zoho will certainly fill in those gaps for free.
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USER COMMENTS
Thanks for the nice review on Zoho, Nikhil! Believe you read about the launch of Zoho Show. I would like you to give an early invite. Do mail me if you are interested.
by Aravind, Chennai, on Dec 13, 2007 06:21 PM, Report abuse Reply
Nikhil, Would be glad to arrange a demo/trial account of our tech preview for you - drop me a line and I will have it set up for you. Cheers, Sumanth For the Live Documents team
by Sumanth, Bangalore, on Dec 11, 2007 07:18 PM, Report abuse Reply
One can use the invite yourself button on Live documents so no need to wait for an invite.
by v_2krdee, Mumbai, on Dec 10, 2007 03:06 PM, Report abuse Reply
Link to get an invitation for Live Documents http://live.instacoll.com/instasecure/showRegistrationPage.do
by v_2krdee, Mumbai, on Dec 10, 2007 03:08 PM, Report abuse
any free download is there to check
by prem, BANGALORE, on Dec 10, 2007 01:08 PM, Report abuse Reply
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