http://www.writely.com/

Sounds very interesting. No more "OMG I DON'T HAVE WORD" issues, finally being able to make PDFs for free, and colaborative documents is an original concept.

Sadly it's only IE/Firefox compatible at this stage.

http://www.writely.com/

Sounds very interesting. No more "OMG I DON'T HAVE WORD" issues, finally being able to make PDFs for free, and colaborative documents is an original concept.

Sadly it's only IE/Firefox compatible at this stage.

Yay! Google scores another one. Needs Opera support.

BTW, what happened to Microsoft's Office Live?

Edit: it messed up the whitespace in my lame course paper (http://www.writely.com/View.aspx?docid=dd5cn46v_1cb2cj9). Also didn't want to save (threw back errors) until I previewed it, when it saved instantly. Needs work :P

Well dear sir, that's why they call it a "beta". Go report it (http://groups.google.com/group/Writely-Discussion-Group) and they're more likely to fix it.

Hey I'm not complaining. I uploaded a random document just to check how it would deal with it, and was prepared for the worst - and generally I wrote my post in a positive tone :D Still, that's the best online browser-based word processor I've seen so far.

Lol, Google's freaking NASTILY awesome.

They ARE trying to take over microsoft office, aren't they?
More power to them. I assume that I'll eventually be able to try this thing.

The name kinda sounds like a character from Paper Mario.

How else would they record what documents you read?

Google are the new big brother (and I don't mean the **** Channel 4 programme).

finally being able to make PDFs for free
I've been doing that for absolutely ages.

Ahhh, the wonders of Mac OSX.


And as Writely isn't Safari-compatible, I guess I won't be using it...

Sounds very interesting. No more "OMG I DON'T HAVE WORD" issues, finally being able to make PDFs for free, and colaborative documents is an original concept.
Pffft, Open Office!

However, I've heard about writely before and it certainly is going to cause a stir! There's less and less cause to buy Microsoft Office now.

It doesn't support Page Plus files though :(

Good old Google:)

Sounds very interesting. No more "OMG I DON'T HAVE WORD" issues, finally being able to make PDFs for free

OpenOffice.Org has offered that for ages anyway, but well done to Google. I may even have a proper use for this.

I for one think openOffice is crap.

Have you even tried it?

Yes. Next question please.

I for one think openOffice is crap.
Really? I think it's great.

It's nothing like as powerful or pervasive as Microsoft Office, but considering the price difference, the extra security, and the free in-built PDF making, I don't see much motivation to buy Office instead unless you really do need the extra features.

If extra features include a working spellchecker for any other language than english then yes, it's worth it.
I might aswell use WordPad, no?

Edit: I don't want to make PDF files =/

If extra features include a working spellchecker for any other language than english then yes, it's worth it.
Orthography and grammar checkers are the first things I turn off immediately after installing. :p

OpenOffice.Org has offered that for ages anywayWell one thing is a huge free office suite, another is an online wordprocessor that you just have to sign up and go.

Equally it could be said you only have to bung a knoppix disc in a computer and reboot, but this is far more accessable to most people.

Rebooting is avoided as much as possible. It's not like you devote your whole computer to one task at the time. If I reboot for knoppix then i have to dismiss everthing else I was doing, so it's far from as smooth. Then we have the issue of public computers, thoose are often un-rebootable or no access to cd drive.

Well, I have a tendancy to do that and mine normally turns on and off like a yoyo as I remember something else I wanted to do on it. But I wasn't really being serious about using knoppix when you want a word processor, I just like it for the novelty and it is quite useful every so often.

Sure. Live linux cd's are awesome. I have ubunthu, slackware and hikarunix (http://www.hikarunix.org/) laying around. Alwase great for when windows is acting up and is unusable. Or when you want to hack school computers.. =)

Or when you want to hack school computers.. =)Nah, that's even easier. Just type 'Administrator' and hit enter. :rolleyes:

never heard of Hikarunix before, looks intriguing

Nah, that's even easier. Just type 'Administrator' and hit enter. :rolleyes:

At our school we could go into Network Neighbourhood and call up a full password list -- or just browse to everyone's personal files.

Our school had some flaws. For instance, they lock down the harddrives so no students have access to the computer they are on, just their network folder. But everbody had acess to the program Cygwin from a desktop shortcut :P

OpenOffice is big, slow, and has a non-native look and feel.

I prefer AbiWord/MS PowerPoint Viewer.

Our school had some flaws. For instance, they lock down the harddrives so no students have access to the computer they are on, just their network folder. But everbody had acess to the program Cygwin from a desktop shortcut :P

Our school had a Windows defence programme called "Cerberus" designed to stop us doing anything much. Though several of us knew the password. And I knew that you could replace the exe file with Notepad and that would run instead. Notepad was much less restrictive.