GDocs vs. ThinkFree vs. Zoho vs. MS Office 226
CWmike writes "Web-based productivity suites, once almost a contradiction in terms, have become real challengers to desktop applications. Google Docs, ThinkFree, and Zoho, have all made major improvements in recent months. They're becoming both broader, with more applications, and deeper, with more features and functionality in existing apps. The question is: Are these three applications really ready to take on a desktop-based heavy hitter like Microsoft Office?"
Re:Missing Option (Score:3, Funny)
Emacs is never an option. SSH in from another machine and kill it from the command line.
Office is da bomb. (Score:4, Funny)
Just give up already, you want to spend the money and buy a nice new Vista PC. Piano black, the ribbon, veterans love it and newbies grok it. It all works together so well it's like a dream. Opens your old documents and saves the new ones in a better than internationally accepted standards way. Worth every penny, $450 for the ultimate OS and $450 for the bestes Office suite, so your computer should not cost much less than $1000. Think of how it will train your children in the skills every office demands [slashdot.org]. Yeah, now your wallet is moving.
Re:performance seems to have improved; who'll use (Score:2, Funny)
I'm guessing these are entry level physics classes? 111 or 101 perhaps? I don't mean anything bad at all, because the last time i had a physics class no one was using MS Office stuff at all. Pretty much everyone writes stuff up with LaTex.
Just for humor's sake, you should teach a lesson one day about how Microsoft software makes your intelligence fall. I'm sure it's pretty easy to come up with a reasonable formula for it's rate of change. Even better, play the Balmer videos. Everyone loves those. :-P
Re:eh (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Missing Option (Score:3, Funny)
sudo rm -f `find / *emacs*`
Nuke it from root. It's the only way to be sure.
Re:eh (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:Missing Option (Score:3, Funny)
Emacs is never an option. SSH in from another machine and kill it from the command line.
Why use another machine? I'm sure EMACS has an SSH client built into it somewhere...
Re:Missing Option (Score:2, Funny)
Emacs is never an option. SSH in from another machine and kill it from the command line.
And then nuke it from orbit - it's the only way to be sure.
Re:easier way to quit emacs (Score:5, Funny)
type "killall -9 emacs"
No. "shutdown -r now" from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
Re:Yes! Good enough in 90% of the cases (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Office + SharePoint better for large businesses (Score:3, Funny)