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.
Zoho Writer is just the thing I have been looking for to store documents that I can access either at work or home without having to do the flash drive or ftp thing. With Zoho I can creat docs im my private folder access them from where ever. The other bonus is I don’t have to deal with using MS Word at work and OO Writer at home (I use Linux on my home PC).
I know I could just use my blog for personal docs but there is an issue with Private Post in Wordpress andRSS Feeds. The issue is private posts keep showing up in my FeedBurner RSS Feed!! Not very private huh?
The other thing I could do is to just use FTP nd store my docs in a protected folder on the server but that brings up the MS vs OpenOffice issues I’ve had in the past. Not to mentition the version issues that can arise.
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