Microsoft Office Competitor Built in Flex and AIR

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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]

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  • Mark Andrews

    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 ;)

  • Andrii

    We are working on something that could be called Excel replacement using Flex. i could send a demo if you want :)

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  • http://www.munkiihouse.com Tony Fendall

    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.

  • anonymous

    windows.com = flex. period bitches.

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