Zoho Writer, Show, Sheet, etc….
Zoho came out with Zoho Writer about the same time that all the other online word processors were coming out. They were good, but I didn’t think they were special in any way. However, Zoho is really making strides in the Office Suite department. They now have a word processor, slideshow, spreadsheet, database application, planner, and chat system that are all free. They also have a virtual office suite and a customer relations manager that are free for small groups (10 for the suite, 3 for the CRM), and they are now demoing a project management service. And, of course, all of these allow collaboration with anyone who has an email address.
One of the other exciting things that Zoho offered, and one that I installed immediately, is a plugin (available for IE and Firefox) that will display office-type files in the web browser without having the software installed. It reads doc, xls, ppt, odt, rtf, sxw, sxc, sxi, and pps files. (I’m really excited about this, because, if it works well and I can get our IT department interested, it might solve some of the viewing problems we have on our public computers.)
I’ll be trying everything out and will report on the individual applications separately, but I couldn’t resist posting about the whole thing right away.
