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Microsoft's Nemesis – Michael Robertson – Strikes Again...With "ajaxWrite"
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03/24/2006, By AjaxWorld News Desk
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Hard on the heels of Google's acquisition of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) start-up Upstartle LLC and its Writely.com beta word processor a couple of weeks ago, Michael Robertson (pictured) - the serial entrepreneur behind MP3.com, then Linspire (née Lindows, the Linux operating system company that won a $20M settlement out of Microsoft after Microsoft sued it for trademark infringement), and more recently SIPphone - has just unveiled a thing called "ajaxWrite," his idea of a SaaS alternative to Microsoft's vaunted cash-cow Office software.
After AjaxWrite, Robertson says that the new company he started last year in stealth mode to house the overall effort is promising to deliver software components that will replace all of the pieces in the pricey Office suite - and he says it will all be free.
ajaxWrite is browser-accessible from any Windows, Mac or Linux computer provided you're using Firefox 1.5 or better. It's supposed to load instantly, complete with the latest features, which may be stuff Microsoft conquered years ago - but we're reinventing the wheel here, remember. It's supposed to have 85% of Office's functionality, which should suit most people. It lacks stuff like numbered footnotes. Robertson says that if you need features like that use OpenOffice.
Like Writely, ajaxWrite is still in beta and lacks features such as a spellchecker that are supposed to be on the way. It may also have bugs. Early users are asked to report them.
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