Moving Your Tech Life Online
January 14th, 2008 by admin
IBM released an online application suite last week in a move to compete with Google. Google has been working tirelessly to provide online applications to compete with Microsoft Office. Their offerings, while not as convenient or powerful, do come close and in fact satisfy the needs of many users. IBM’s online offerings have bested Google in a couple areas and like Google are free. In today’s Wall Street Journal I read where Microsoft too has rolled out a free service that lets users of its Office software create and share documents over the Internet in new ways. Not to be outdone Adobe, developers of Acrobat Portable Document Format (AKA PDF) have plans to unveil an online document-sharing service called Share.There are pros and cons to be considered here. Yes there it a great convenience not having those apps installed on ones computer and your data being backed up by the various providers. Equally exciting is the potential to not have to purchase an upgrade to the very expensive Microsoft Office suite. On the downside your ‘editable’ data often remains on the app’s online server - under their control.






