Adobe just announced that the number of AIR runtime installs has crossed 100 million and this milestone achievement has been echoed by several others. Several folks including thought-leaders like ReadWriteWeb have rightfully questioned the validity of this claim, perhaps not so much in terms of challenging the absolute numbers themselves but in [...]
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Taking Adobe AIR beyond Twitter clients…and why AIR matters.
February 3, 2009Why we chose Flex
January 30, 2009When we started developing our web-enabled Office suite, we used AJAX as that was the technology du jour in circa 2006. We had quite a bit of experience both in Javascript as well as in XML handling and quickly came up with our versions of AJAX-driven, browser-based applications for word processing, spreadsheets and presentations. While [...]
Our journey from a Microsoft Office plugin to a Microsoft Office replacement…
January 27, 2009We first started working on Live Documents around two and a half years back. At that point in time, Google Docs was starting to make news – AJAX-driven browser-based applications that offer users with an alternative to the desktop juggernaut Microsoft apps.
The core benefit posited was that in this web-based paradigm, collaboration becomes much easier [...]
Power without Point?
November 21, 2008Admittedly, Microsoft PowerPoint is a powerful tool – while its essential nature of being a standalone desktop software has not changed over the last twenty years, over this long period, like a rolling stone gathering moss, PowerPoint has gone way beyond it’s original premise of providing business users an elegant and user-friendly way to communicate [...]
