ThinkFree Office
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| ThinkFree Office | |
| Maintainer: | ThinkFree Inc. |
| Stable release: | 3.2 (November 7, 2006) [+/-] |
| Preview release: | N/A (N/A) [+/-] |
| OS: | Mac OS X v10.4 (older versions avail. for 8.6 ~ 10.3), Windows, Linux |
| Available language(s): | US English, UK English, French, German, Spanish, Japanese |
| Use: | Office suite |
| License: | proprietary closed source |
| Website: | ThinkFree |
ThinkFree Office by Haansoft ThinkFree Co. Ltd., a subsidiary company of Haansoft Corporation, is an office suite written in Java that runs on Windows, Linux, and Macintosh platforms. ThinkFree Office includes a word processor (Write), a spreadsheet (Calc) and a presentation program (Show). ThinkFree Office reads and writes to Microsoft Office file formats (.doc, .xls, and .ppt). ThinkFree Office has a look and feel similar to Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint, allowing users to switch over easily. Other products besides ThinkFree Office, ThinkFree Online include ThinkFree Viewer for Web 2.0 uses and currently in development, ThinkFree Online Premium Edition.
In December 2006, it was speculated that the developers behind ThinkFree were a target of acquisition by Google.[1]
[edit] ThinkFree Online
ThinkFree Online is a free online edition that runs Write, Calc and Show in a browser using a mix of Java applet and Ajax technologies. Each user is allotted 1 GB of online storage space for saving documents. ThinkFree Online lets users collaborate on documents with others, publish to a blog or the web. ThinkFree Online also keeps a version history per document of the changes that are made. The Java applet version, or Power Edit mode, exists for all three applications, and appears to be an applet port of the original desktop versions written in Java. Ajax-based Quick Edit mode (offered for Write and Show only) can run without the need of starting up an applet.
[edit] ThinkFree Office editions
In addition to ThinkFree Online, ThinkFree Office exists in Desktop, Portable for U3 (Windows only), and Server editions. The application binaries are stored at the local PC, U3 smart drive, or server respectively. Also, ThinkFree Office Show, iPod Edition is provided which has an export to JPEG slides feature for use on an iPod, which can be hooked up to a beam projector for slides presentation.
