Zoho Beats Microsoft? STILL Only Billions in Office Sales To Go!
Zoho continues to rule…the blogosphere!
The latest, greatest Adventnet accomplishment? Zoho Writer supports (some ) offline editing.
The Zoho logo is a familiar one in the blogosphere–Zoho sponsors Techmeme and many individual blogs–and the consistenly glowing blogosphere coverage of every single move Zoho makes is also a standard.
Today’s Zoho product functionality anouncement is given the supra Zoho treatment:
TechCrunch: “While Live Documents Yaps, Zoho Delivers”
GigaOm via Web Worker Daily: “Zoho Seeks to Replace, Not Embrace, Microsoft Office”
Cnet: “Zoho Writer Gets Full Offline Functionality”
WOW? For the Zoho tech blogosphere legions apparently, but a non-event for the marketplace legions of Microsoft Office customers.
Zoho itself acknowledges the incomplete nature of its latest product “update”:
You’ll notice that not all functionalities available online are available in offline mode. This is because some of the functionalities are online specific while others will make their way into the offline mode moving forward.
YAY? NOT for the non-blogging Microsoft masses:
For Zoho Writer to work offline, you’ll need to have Google Gears plug-in installed on your browser (works on Firefox 1.5+, IE 6+).
Microsoft Office beware? My new PC came pre-installed with a free-trial of the Office everyone hopes to “kill,” but NO Google Gears plug-in, or Zoho!
Microsoft banks (literally) on millions of new PC owners dutifully paying their hundreds in Office fees to keep Word, Excel, Powerpoint alive and well…on their hard drives.
Zoho is mainly a FREE online service, striving for offline respectability. Bloggers are happily Web-centric for all their affairs, BUT the security and comfort of a PC-based office computing standard is hard to replace, very hard.
SO, as I wrote in September: Zoho to Beat Microsoft and Google: Only billions in Sales to Go!, still.
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