ThinkFree, the web office provider will provide a complete
Office suite for the Android OS. It offers a cross platform suite of office applications that can be used on Windows, Mac, Linux, Mobile & of course Web Cloud. Soon user will get full office suite for Google
Android users will get complete office suite like spreadsheet, presentation and word processing applications. The application is compatible with Microsoft Office 97, 2000, 2003, and 2007.
Right at the moment Android Market has very few players in Document editing space and mostly all apps are notepad type which is not fulfill the user requirement, Specially for Enterprise user it will be a nice option on Android platform. However Documents To Go is available for Android, which comes with the initial price of $19.99 with supports for Word and Excel.With very few players, for ThinkFree it's a great opportunity to grab the market.
ThinkFree comes with 1GB online storage. ThinkFree also provides online document editing so user can edit a document on the computer, Job can be done via web also, sync it to the web, and continue editing on the go with your mobile device. So you can view, edit, create & store documents via web or via Mobile. You can easily access, upload, download or share your documents. According to ThinkFree, user can easily browse the documents stored Google Docs. this could be a solid solution for Document coloration.
There's no word on pricing yet but ThinkFree Mobile for Android available in market later this year. An initial version with document viewers should be available in July.
KOffice is the open source, cross-platform office suite that OpenOffice.org.KOfficeis part of
KDE desktop environment KDE's
products are a modern desktop system for Linux and UNIX platforms, comprehensive office productivity and groupware suites. You can run KDE apps like KOffice can run in Windows & Mac OS X & Linux environment, although installation is still a lot simpler in Linux distributions like
Kubuntu or
OpenSUSE.
KOffice team released a preview of KOffice 2. KOffice includes a word processor, spreadsheet utility, presentation manager, project management softwre, a vector graphcis editor and a raster graphics editor. It use of the OpenDocument Format as the native file format. This makes KOffice immediately compatible with a lot of other office software, most notably
OpenOffice.org
(Karbon - Vector graphics editor)
The following applications are part of KOffice 2.0:
- KSpread - Spreadsheet calculator
- KPresenter - Presentation manager
- KPlato - Project management software
- Karbon - Vector graphics editor
- Krita - Raster graphics editor
All the applications of KOffice has a new GUI layout better suited to todays wider screens. The GUI consists of a workspace and a sidebar where tools can dock. Any tool can be ripped off to create its own window and later be redocked fo full flexibility. The users setup preferences are of course saved and reused the next time that KOffice is started.
(Krita- Raster graphics editor)
New version does have a number of new features, including:
- Better integration between applications
- New GUI designed to work with widescreen monitors
- Support for Windows, Mac, and Linux
- Native support for OpenDocument Format
It's also much easier for third party developers to create add-ons that will add new features and customizations. The idea of an application that supports third-party extensions and add-ons users can download and install in one click may be more applicable to Web browsers than office suites, but the developers at the open source KOffice project have developed such an architecture where all components are modular. Find more info at the
wiki
