Microsoft Office Competitor Built in Flex and AIR
There’s a bunch of news today about Live Documents, an online competitor to Microsoft Office. I realize this is become less and less notable but they’re using Flex for all of the applications as far as I can tell and it’s founded in part by the guy who sold Hotmail to Microsoft.
Matt Asay has a followup to his original post and it sounds like they’re actually going to offer a desktop version of all the applications using Adobe AIR. Zoli has my favorite thought (last bullet point) but I think the use of Flex/AIR means it isn’t the case.
I don’t have an account yet, but when I do I’ll be posting a review on ZDNet. If anyone does have one, send a long some screenshots!
[tags]Live Documents, Flex, AIR, Microsoft Office[/tags]
Posted in Flex, Rich Internet Applications
November 23rd, 2007 at 6:37 pm
Something seems a bit fishy there, I’m not convinced this is really what it seems, the site doesn’t look right, there are no real screenshots and to be honest it just oozes M$ fishiness, just look at the site design and the LIVEness
November 26th, 2007 at 1:20 am
We are working on something that could be called Excel replacement using Flex. i could send a demo if you want
November 26th, 2007 at 8:17 am
Hotmail Founder Launches Flex Based Microsoft Office…
Ten years ago, Sabeer Bhatia co-founded Hotmail and sold it to Microsoft for just under $400 million. Now he’s launching a Flex based competitor to Microsoft Office called Live Documents. So far the site isn’t allowing registration, although you ca…
November 26th, 2007 at 2:27 pm
As they said on TechCrunch yesterday, they have done no development yet (they haven’t even done wireframes), and keep talking about their potential profits in terms of the market share of Microsoft Office.
There’s a lot of hype, but little substance. It’s hard to imagine anyone claiming to be able to match the full feature set of Microsoft office when they haven’t even started yet.
November 26th, 2007 at 5:40 pm
windows.com = flex. period bitches.
December 3rd, 2007 at 7:36 pm
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December 5th, 2007 at 12:01 am
[...] Live Documents, the Flex-based Office 2007 competitor that got a lot of attention last week has finally let out some screenshots to Amit Agarwal over at Digital Inspiration. I won’t post them here, I’ll let you head over there, but I won’t lie; they’re going to look VERY familiar. I’m going to be getting a demo of Live Documents hopefully before the end of the year. They’ve clearly got a very compelling (and familiar) UI. It will be very interesting to see if they captured the full Office 2007 experience. [...]