Filed under: Office, Web services
ajaxXLS: Web-based spreadsheet from ajaxLaunch
Michael Robertson's
ajaxLaunch is trying hard to keep up the buzz from the launches of its web-based word processor ajaxWrite and drawing app ajaxSketch, and today it's launched ajaxXLS, a web-based spreadsheet app. ajaxXLS looks promising, and
will no doubt look familiar to Excel users, but having spent a few minutes with it I can already tell ajaxXLS is far
from finished. In fact, it's downright hard to use and seems like it would be infuriating to anyone trying to switch
from Excel. Some of its issues might just be due to high opening day user load, but much of it just seems buggy or
incomplete. Here's hoping Robertson can turn ajaxXLS into something usable; at present it's uninspiring.
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They key to getting good at Graveyard Shift is learning to use ...
