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ThinkFree Online joins Web Office sweepstakes
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03/16/2006, By Dan Farber
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One of ThinkFree's specialties is support for Microsoft document formats and replicating the look and feel of Microsoft applications. I imported several MS Office documents in the beta version and didn't notice any rendering errors. Kang said that he plans to provide a ThinkFree API that will allow other applications to view Microsoft documents. For example, you could embed a PowerPoint presentation in a blog page and view the contents. The suite can also can save to PDF–no Open Document Format yet. ThinkFree Online is free, ad-supported, and will be available the first week in April, Kang said. ThinkFree has about 50 engineers working on the product, and is part of Hansoft, Korea's largest software company. Of course, I did manage to crash the beta version, and you are at the mercy of whatever network you are on.
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