Round One: ThinkFree Office Wins

I have been using Google Docs and Spreadsheets since it was available to Gmail users. I actually wanted to try Writely, but signups had already been shut down by the time I got to it due to the Google takeover. I waited a while and when Writely had been Googlized I jumped at the chance to play with it. When Google Spreadsheets became available I made sure I took the time out to play with that as well. I think the idea of having a portable office suite has always been appealing to me for several reasons:

Since the beginning Google Docs was always slow to me. I thought it was just normal because the applications were somewhat complex and script heavy. I also had quite a difficult time downloading my files and deleting files from the site. It took so many clicks to move files around that it’s always been a point of mild frustration for me. I never thought anything of it until I tried ThinkFree Office. After only an hour or so of playing around with their applications, I cleaned out my Google Docs archive and moved everything to their site.

There are a lot of things I like about ThinkFree, but these are the most important to me:

So far I am very impressed with the suite. I am going to try to spend more time editing documents within ThinkFree Office on the web so that I can see how it reacts to heavy use and more complex functions than I have used before. I hope that the applications continue to be this usable as the suite grows and I hope that the desktop based versions of the applications stay affordable as well. I would also like to see a Mac version of the desktop suite. Once that is available I would have to say that ThinkFree Office would be a very hard competitor to beat in this particular software market.

Tags: Geek, Google Docs, Microsoft Office, ThinkFree Office, web

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2 Responses to “Round One: ThinkFree Office Wins”

  1. bill on March 5th, 2007 8:46 am

    I’ve been using Google Docs for awhile too but only for quick working papers or outlines. I really wish that their spreadsheet was more functional - if it was I’d use it everyday.

    Anything major I need to work on currently gets done on my portable Open Office installation. Because I’m not in a position where I really need to share any “in progress” stuff it works nicely.

    I just plug in my flash drive and I’m set to go. It’d be nice to not need my flash drive though - especially since I occasionally end up on an older pc that has no USB2 ports. I’ll definitely be checking out ThinkFree now.

  2. elise on March 5th, 2007 8:54 am

    I used to carry a flash drive around as well, but I found that I would only forget it at home when I actually needed it so I did everything I could to eliminate my need for it. Since I use a Blackberry that doesn’t have a memory card slot, storing files there was not an option either. I used to save files in a folder on my web hosting directory but that’s inconvenient as well. In emergencies I can always throw files on my iPod but I usually reserve that for large files, and as you said it’s no good if I’m on a machine with no USB ports or where the USB ports are disabled. Storing office files online was a bit of a necessary evil.

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