Check this out
http://www.live-documents.com.

I am sure that there will be no reply to this post from Mr. Sumanth because … !!! Building a screenshot is simple, but building an app that works is not , especially something that is as complicated as M$ Office.

If Sumanth does respond and if I am allowed a peek into LiveDocuments… I will eat my words (and probably visit the ‘careers’ link at http://www.livedocuments.com.. if there is one!!!)

Cheers to you too

Zoho Business which is in Private Beta is targeted towards businesses, not to mention Zoho CRM and Zoho Projects which many businesses are already using. And Zoho’s single sign-on system allows individual users to have a single login name/password and access a host of Zoho services.

But I see this innovative young company having a hard time convincing customers to trust Zoho with their corporate data. Not going to be easy for google either but something they have a huge advantage in. May be Zoho should encourage bids from big trusted names- like IBM?

@40 – i encountered those database-connectivity error kind of text error pages before and often, albeit a few months ago, fyi.

Both office suite still miss an integrated macro language, something like the useful iMacros Firefox extension offers. I use iMacros to automate Google Docs, but there are still a few functions it does not support, such as filling out spreadsheet cells.

I tried Zoho but found it unstable. It’s not ready for prime time IMO.

GooDocs has been far more reliable. Must be all those data centers…

How to get acquire by google.
Use letter, “J, D, O, Y, B, p, d, u, a, t, z, f, p, g ” mix around.

How to get Microsoft invest and get MS armies.
Use letter, “F, V, O, b c, a, e, l, i,k, …, …, … “mix around.

Yahoo does not have spreadsheet, docs, etc. And Zoho letter starts with “ho” they should buy zoho this Christmas.

With all the features they claim to have, do they have any APIs so we can interface this information in and out of it ?

@30, what’s the value to the big boys.. they buy one company and suddently found that they have 12 or 20 products to play with but only 1 or 2 really useful..

in general, very interesting to see so many posts “curious” about why not yhoo et al acquiring zoho.. i’d wonder, have you ever gone through acquisition deals before… and what it takes… (and the first question from the acquirer is likely to be, who’s your vc backing you up? no vc? no deal..) — in a way, just kidding.. but then, quite often true..

in other words, having products per se not enough.. get a vc or two and let them pitch your company to the deep pockets.. it’s their game, /ac.

I must also say that Zoho’s UI is pretty bad and looks like it was done by a software engineer.

If I am right, Arrington used to let people know that in his posts on Zoho. At least I recall one now. You both would have known that if you are a regular techcrunch reader.

There’s a spate of articles about the new Live Documents service, a cloud-based SaaS challenger to Microsoft Office.  Like any good entrepreneur, CEO and founder Sabia Bhatia claims his new baby and it’s relatives will displace MS Office b…