I don’t like Google Docs. I don’t like Microsoft Office Live either. But I do like OpenOffice. A lot. Wondering if there was any means of using the OO suite online, I did some searching and found that yes, there is a way. It’s done thru Ulteo’s web site.
After signing up for a free account with Ulteo you’re greeted with this:
Ulteo is actually a lot more than just OpenOffice, but being that’s what I was interested in I clicked the Start now! button for OO.
On the next screen you get this:
You choose the app in the OO suite you’d like to launch. I wanted Writer (the OO word processing app), so I waited a few seconds for the Java load to complete and clicked the green Launch OpenOffice.org NOW! button.
Once inside, yes this is a real true-blue OO Writer app – 100% Java loaded. This is not a web page thing pretending to be an online document editor.
Said honestly this is cool. My only complaint is that the Java is a bit wonky at times, however this is a true Writer app. Considering how large it is it loads up quick.
For those wondering, yes you can store stuff online via this site. They offer a free 1GB of space to anyone who has an account. For docs and so on that’s not bad.
You might want to try this for yourself – especially if you wanted to see OpenOffice in action without actually installing it.
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