It makes me wonder; if Henry Ford had been asked to design a boat, would he have taken a model T and put a giant hull around it? That’s what people have seemingly done with woffice. Ok so Blits are a bit different, and Google finally seems to be doing things that are a bit more inspired (Google forms = good!). Microsoft, having ploughed god knows how much into Office Live (no, I don’t know why it’s Live either, presumably I prerecord my self typing this?) and have now come up with, “Office Web Applications” (groan..). And in so doing have created nothing new or original what-so-ever, in fact all they have managed to do is to take an established product and dumb it down wonderful.
So what should they be doing? A bloody lot more, that’s what. That counts for Google, Microsoft, and all the others. I don’t want a desktop app that I can use in a in a web browser. The clue’s in the name, its not called, “the spear bedroom at the back of the house”, or “the laptop on my knee in the lounge which is a bit hot”, or, “my 5 year old Parckard Bell on the pine effect chipboard PC desk over in the corner, which I got form PC world, but I don’t use now because its full of spy wear that I cant get off.” It’s called Office dam it; because I use it in a bloody office! If you want me to use an on-line app, then get it to do stuff that makes sense on line. Make an app that works like one-note or Google note book, but that ties it altogether and allows me to produce a rich text doc at the end of it. What about a database that lets me build a web-based front end (and back end) that I can use as a lite weight warehouse management system, or pay roll system. Surely there’s a market for a robust easy to customise online database product!!!!!
Make it integrate with Google maps in fact let me browse Google maps, copy that into my document and then give me a load of choices, browse shops in this area, look at pictures from here, search for information about the place. Find out about that country (link to wikipedia), that sort of thing.
Come on, stop reinventing the wheel, we want hover boards, and we want them now!!!!
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Zoho has the database thing you mention. If you use Firefox try the Ubiquity extension for the maps and all that stuff… It’s not all the way there yet, but is a beginning.
Thanks Martin, I’ve check out Zoho, they have added some cool stuff since i last looked at them.
Although, my point is more general, I have to say the Zoho stuff give me some hope!