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Zoho rebrands as FakeOffice (not really, but it's catchy, no?)
So it probably shouldn't be that surprising that Microsoft Online VP Ron Markezich referred to Zoho, Google Docs, and Zimbra as services that offer "fake Office capabilities."
What was a bit surprising is how well the Zoho team took that idea and ran with it. Zoho CEO Sridhar Vembu wrote a blog post about the topic yesterday. And today the company launched FakeOffice.org, a site that compares Zoho's application suite with Microsoft's.
Not surprisingly, Zoho points out a number of features that it's products offer that Microsoft's doesn't. Clearly, MS Office has a few features up its sleeve that you won't find in Zoho Office, including 100% compatibility with all those Office documents your friends and colleagues keep sending you. But it's worth checking out the site for the Fake Office "work online" music video, and the little comments such as the Twitter gadget, which is powered by "Fake MS Access."
Zoho has actually been an innovator in the online office space for a while, and most of the company's web apps offer far more features than competing Google Docs. But it's tough for a company with an unusual name like Zoho to take on the big guys like Microsoft and Google. Maybe Vembu should think about permanently changing Zoho's name to FakeOffice? It does have a nice ring to it.
Unfortunately FakeOffice.com has already been registered, which is why Zoho had to grab a .org address for their site.
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Abdo said 8:30AM on 11-06-2009
That music video was...strange. But it was a little funny.
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whiskey said 11:02AM on 11-06-2009
"100% compatibility with all those Office documents your friends and colleagues keep sending you"
Dumb bastards, if they only knew it is Microsoft who keeps their formats so closed that no one else can read them right. By comparison, of course, Open Document formats work like a charm with EVERYTHING ELSE.
Go Fake Office!
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