Live Documents, a peek at the next online office player

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Live Documents, a peek at the next online office player

by Chris Gilmer Dec 5th 2007

We covered Live Documents, the new online office documents competition last month, that is about to make a move to steal some market share aware from Zoho, ThinkFree and Google.

Live Documents has released some screen grabs from its interface, giving a little more insight into what they are all about. The Flash based interfaces do resemble what Microsoft currently has on the market, but add the ability to collaborate. Screenshots include Presentations, Spreadsheets and Documents.

Live Documents does reference Microsoft, and Microsoft's Office applications quite a bit when talking about its own suite, and the look and feel closely resembles what MS offers, so we have to assume that they have relied heavily on Office as a starting point. Is this a bad thing? Not if you're looking to quickly build and sell the business.

We'll have to test Live Documents when it becomes readily available to see what its winning points are, and whether or not it will become a major player in the online office space.

Tags: documents, excel, microsoft, office, powerpoint, presentations, spreadsheets, word

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

michael said 11:47PM on 12-06-2007

What a copycat. Looks EXACTLY like the new Office ribbon UI.

Microsoft did allow programmers to use the UI, ONLY if it didn't compete directly with MS Office.

Oh, and 'Live' Documents? Sounds very close to the Windows Live moniker Microsoft uses for it's web service brand. It's like they want to get a lawsuit or something.

I think Microsoft is already working on a Office collaboration service, called Office Live Workspaces : http://officelive.microsoft.com/

It's a wonder if Live Documents will succeed for long.

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