Thursday, September 29, 2005

 

Browser-only office applications

Slashdot has a posting about AJAX-based word processing, spreadsheeting, and presentation building applications. These are great examples of the Web 2.0 -- where the network is the operating system and apps ride on the 'net. As long as one has a browser, one is in business. Moreover, many of the web apps are open-source and can be downloaded to a server for internal use.

This would sure beat the corporate lag in updating corprate desktop.

And speaking of corporations and Web 2.0, here is an intersting comment suggesting Microsoft's recent reorganization is an admission on MS's part that Web 2.0 is here to stay.

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