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Had a comment in my last post (yes, I know it was forever ago) asking what an online word processor was. So while answering the person via email, I realized that other people might have a use for such a tool as well! I couldn’t find the site that I had gotten such a kick out of before, but I did find an article on ZDNet that has a list of several that fit the bill.

The one that I had looked at was GOffice.com. It has a basic word processor available and a bare bones desktop publishing program in the works. They also have tabs for spreadsheets and presentations, but they aren’t linked to anything yet. Must be in the works. Anyway, it does just about everything you could want a word processor to do if you have fairly basic needs. I mean, if you use some of the more obscure features of Word, this may not work for you. However for about 90% of us, it would do just fine. It’s free for personal use, and for business use it’s a whopping 1$ per month with no long term contract. Shall we compare that price side by side with Microsoft Word? Nah. It’s simple, it’s free and it’s accessible from anywhere you have an internet connection. Students don’t have Word? No worries at all. Plus, since you can save your files on the site, the kids don’t have to worry about losing their disk on the way to school or forgetting it at home!

ZDNet had quite a few others listed, and some of them looked incredibly sophisticated. FCKeditor in particular looks pretty cool. Does start to make you wonder whether schools really need to be spending tens of thousands of dollars on Microsoft licensing if comparable alternatives are available free on the internet.

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