Live Documents Screenshots - The Replica of Microsoft Office 2007
Here are the first screenshots of Live Documents, a Microsoft Office like productivity suite that seeks to challenge Google Docs and Zoho Office.
As you may have noticed, the individual programs of Live Documents look like a replica of their Microsoft Office 2007 counterparts including the color scheme, ribbon GUI, icons and the layout. The difference being that Live Documents runs completely in your browser.
Unlike the primitive Google PowerPoint, the Presentation app of Live Documents has a lot of tools (and shapes) borrowed from the real Microsoft PowerPoint. Their spreadsheet app provides a large variety of charts, conditional formatting and even support Excel Macros.
The Live Documents interface and feature set looks way ahead of competition from existing online Office suites. And as we have already seen with Buzzword or Picnik, Flex based browser apps are always a pleasure to work with because once the app gets loaded in the browser, the response is extremely good.
With Live Documents, HotMail Sabeer Bhatia could well make a solid impact on the online office space. Request an invite for Live Documents here.
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Does it work in Firefox?
I hope so; no application is important enough to drag me back to IE!
“seo bristol” - It should work as long as you have the free Adobe Flash Player browser plugin installed, which is the case by default for both Firefox and IE (and Safari).
This is amazing. Do they have all the features of office 2007. When is is coming live? will it be free for all.
Does this site promote Live Documents because it’s made by an Indian? Live Documents looks like an outright shameless copy of the venerable Microsoft Office with no otiginality and credibility. Soon, MS will go after them and then they’ll cease to exist. Doesn’t Digital Inspiration value originality vs obvious imitation?
Looks coool.
Slight correction on one of the comments… neither Mozilla Firefox nor Microsoft Internet Explorer include Adobe Flash Player in their basic distributions… current info here:
http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/partners/
Both Netscape and Microsoft did include Macromedia Flash Player in their distributions a few years ago, but Player evolves faster than browsers do, and has a more rapid installation rate as well… eight million successfully completed installations every day, now. Bundling into the browser isn’t needed.
jd/adobe
And blindly recreating Microsoft’s disastrous UI for Office 2007 is a benefit… how?
Excellent shot at that one! I dont think it challenges MS Office, but Google Docs is in trouble… :D
@Anonymous : pretty bad point to argue with dude. A major difference between the two being you need to pay around $125 for MS Office….
Great product. It was really needed :)
@Monha, price is not the point at all, the issue is copycatism.