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PORTOLA VALLEY, Calif. - November 21, 2005 - Writely (www.writely.com), The Web Word Processor, today released support for OpenDocument Format (ODF), the open standard document format backed by Sun Microsystems, IBM and Adobe. Starting today, Writely users can upload documents into Writely from Microsoft Word and Sun Microsystems' OpenOffice.org, as well as save the documents back into either of those formats. Sun and Google announced last month their intention to explore jointly enhancing and promoting OpenOffice.org.

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this is the first time i know ajax , stands for "Asynchronous JavaScript and XML" , "... is a web development technique for creating interactive web applications" ... and now we have this Writely.com providing free web-based online office word processor and they are kind of os independant ... had just tried it on-line and i think its great for the majority of common computer users ... it can create , import and export ... not bad actually but probably more suited for broadband connections ... infact there are more browser-based ajax office suites out there including word processor , desktop publishing , spreadsheet , "presentation-building software" , calender solution and a "web-based version of Microsoft's OneNote" , for those(like me) who know ajax office suites for the first time , you can try them just for fun from here if they are free(i think so) to use ::

http://blogs.zdnet.com/web2explorer/index.php?p=20

http://geektechnique.org/blog/240/


now ... how about ajax "multimedia" suites ??
a home pc with linux + firefox + better web connections ^_^