Thursday, 13 November 2008

Zoho - a 30 min review

Thanks Lochan for introducing me to Zoho. Heres a short review, written and shared using Zoho Writer

The good things:
  1. I was able to use my google acccount to login - cannot stand yet another logon account
  2. Zoho is great for students and people like me who cannot afford to buy a copy of Microsoft Office
  3. Great editor - easy to use
  4. Many important features are available, even in offline mode.
  5. Can publish easily to four of the main blog sites - you can add others as well.

Areas for improvement:
  1. Requires connection to the internet
    • Preferably broadband? - havent tried with a slower connection
  2. Javascript driven
    • Google chrome is supposed to have the fastest javascript engine
    • The code is open to everyone - how is the implementation hidden?
  3. Percentage of boxes/computers which access the internet
    • This will be a very low number
    • Biggest deterrent for someone to use zoho - document cannot be saved as a word doc. Is there any other way to share this document with others? - oops, found the Export button. How did I miss that? PDF format! Even word does not allow me to do this! - Oh well, the doc export is crap. PDF looks fine.
  4. Is autosave feature available? - looks like it
  5. Uses Google Gears for offline mode - increases Google's monopoly