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Zoho - Online Wordprocessor Goes Offline? WOW!

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Many of you read my article several weeks about about Google Docs… well this is an update to that. Yesterday Zoho, another online office suite, announced three new features:

1. Zoho Plugin for Microsoft Office
2. Zoho API’s
3. Desktopize for Zoho

Microsoft Office Pluging - This is a great feature! Any online word processing challenger to Microsoft Office is going to have to integrate with the giant if it is ever to be competitive.

API - This basically turns the application into open source, making it available to users, groups, and most importantly organizations like the schools we are work in to further develop the product to meet our needs. Coincidentally this announcment comes on the same day that Google releases the API for their online spreadsheet. (Google Docs have yet to catch up to this one).

Desktop Application - This is an awesome feature that bloggers have been writing about ever since the online office suite began getting developed, both by Zoho, Google and others. This is the first release of what will probably be many releases!

I tried out Zoho about 6 months ago but found it way to slow for my taste… perhaps now it deserves a second chance. Does the Zoho Desktop application actually store all your online Zoho documents locally and sync them up when you connect to the network again. If it does… WOW! That just solved a huge issue!! Post your findings in the comments for all of us to see!!