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March 23, 2006
Welcome to 1995
Yet another... [Yawn] ...web-based word processor was annouced today. While that isnt' very interesting... what is interesting is the large quantities of unintended comedy found in Michael Robertson's announcement, "Bye Bye Microsoft Word, Hello ajaxWrite". There are a couple of very funny things in this piece.
First, he is talking about software being delivered via the web like it is the new big thing. LOL... Paul Graham was doing this back in 1995 man! Welcome to last century. Even with the Ajax slant, the technolgy has been around since the late 90's.
Second he mentions that this new product is "cross platform".
"These programs look and operate much like their traditional software cousins, but are cross-platform, loaded dynamically, and are available to users at no charge."
Riiiiiiiight! It currently works only with Firefox. Good stuff.
I won't mention how stupid the name ajaxWrite is (Opps! :-). A common user will think of Ajax as a cleaning supply, and couldn't care less how a word processor is implemented!
Well.... as I said... only read this piece if you are interested in the humor... it is about 12 years too late to qualify as visionary or strategic. If you are really bored more information on this here and here.
Posted by harris at March 23, 2006 05:52 PM
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Think he got you to post about it :)
Posted by: Anonymous at March 23, 2006 03:55 PM