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New web service looks to push Office off the desktop
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03/23/2006, By Antone Gonsalves
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As the lines between the web and the desktop blur, some entrepreneurs are pushing web services as a replacement for desktop apps. One launched a web service for creating documents and saving them on a computer's hard drive as a Microsoft Word file.
Entrepreneur Michael Robertson, a pioneer in online music, launched in beta on Thursday a web service for creating documents and saving them on a computer's hard drive as a Microsoft Word file.
AjaxWrite is meant for people who do not use Microsoft Office or some other desktop productivity application, but have a need to create a Word document, said Robertson, who founded MP3.com in 1997 and is now chief executive of desktop-Linux distributor Linspire in San Diego. The new service does not have storage capabilities, collaboration features or even a spell checker, but those capabilities are planned.
AjaxWrite, according to Robertson, is unique because the application runs in a Web browser, but looks like a desktop application, with the look and feel of Word. That's made possible by the use of Ajax, a method for developing interactive user interfaces for web applications, using standards-based enhancements to JavaScript.
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