The latest issue of Michael Robertson’s Michael’s Minute announces the release of a new web-based word processor called ajaxWrite:
ajaxWrite is a powerful word processor that can read and write Microsoft Word formatted documents. Anytime you need a word processor, need to open a .doc file or edit a .doc file, simply point your Firefox browser at ajaxWrite.com and in seconds a full-featured program will be loaded. For 90 percent of the people in the world, the need to buy Microsoft Word just vanished. This won’t make Microsoft happy, but software users should be very excited that software just got cheaper, immediate and modern.
Unfortunately, when I tried to access the program/web site, it wouldn’t load. It was trying, but nothing happened. My guess is the servers are overloaded. I’ll keep trying and let you know what I think.
[…] for a while now. He recently started working with a company, Ajax13, that is writing web-based office-suite applications. The latest venture is a Windows replacement called ajaxWindows: Today I’m launching […]