ThinkFree, I Think I’ll Pass

Posted by jay on August 29, 2006 under Productivity | Be the First to Comment

*updated 2006-09-06*
A Mr Crow from the ThinkFree team contacted me to let me know that he will have the developers look into and fix my gripes about the system.
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Wow this a record for dismissing a technology. 30 seconds after registration on ThinkFree I uploaded a .txt file and then clicked on it to view/edit and I get this:

[inspic=6,,fullscreen,thumb]

Preview does not support this file format.
Please click here to open or download.

It’s a.txt file for cryin’ out loud!!

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Writely uses .NET?

Posted by jay on under ASP.NET, Productivity, Web2.0 | Be the First to Comment

With in the first 5 minutes of using Writely I noticed the URL to a doc I was editing: http://www.writely.com/Doc.aspx?id=…. Do you see what I see? Writley is using the .aspx file extension which means it is built on ASP.NET, Microsofts’ pride and joy.

I don’t know how to react to this? On one hand I am appalled that Google would use a Microsoft Product but on the other hand what a thumb-to-the-nose at Microsoft.

“Hey Bill, Check us out. We can build (or buy) better stuff with .NET than you could ever dream of!”, shouts Google.