live documents is here!
Sabeer Bhatia, Co-Founder of Hotmail, which later he sold to Microsoft has launched a office productivity online and offline software suite that rivals other big players in the business like Microsoft with its Microsoft Office Live and Google with Google Docs. Live document prides itself as a “suite of online office productivity applications offering functionality equivalent to Word, Excel and PowerPoint”. It also contains a “optional desktop client application that wraps around Microsoft Office and embeds collaborative capabilities into these hitherto standalone software applications - Live Documents converts Microsoft Office applications from static standalone software to smart clients that are connected to the Internet and facilitate in-context document sharing (multiple people can edit a document at the same time) and management (security, access control and revision control) without requiring users to give up their familiar user interfaces. The Live Documents desktop client also ensures offline access to documents - a key failing of current online Office applications.”
Thus, with the advent of live documents the overall online documents niche is getting hotter and lets hope that live documents reach up to its expectations. Currently live documents is available only to a limited people and I have applied to it and lets see if I get a login. You can also apply to live documents here.
You can visit the live documents website to know more about it!
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