Up until now I've been using Google Docs while my wife sends .xls files back and forth.
The problems are 2 fold:
1) Google Docs has become way too slow to use. It wasn't too bad round about the time they bought writely.com but over time the code has gone more and more client side. I'm struggling on but it's come to a head and I'm going crazy.
2) My wife has a Mac... but we didn't buy Office yet. I thought she'd be OK with Mac Sheets but it seems to irritate her from time to time. She still has access to an older, non online copy of Excel on a work laptop and usually there's a computer around with a copy of Excel which doesn't have version control
So...
- have you found Office online to be resource heavy? It looks heavy now I'm testing it... what's your experience? I'm not sure I trust the platform. Zoho seems lighter on resources?
- might zoho be an irritation for my wife to learn? Should she make Zoho her go to workplace and then use Excel only occassionally but carefully if doing so? Or should we kill Excel and Mac Sheets?
- perhaps we should carry on with files and just try to manage it by using a shared online drive?
+ anything else to bear in mind?
It's a little Shopify project we're working on but the use of this groupware I expect to grow beyond that
here's a couple of articles for reference. Neither address my concerns of vendor lock-in and performance:
http://www.tomsitpro.com/articles/cloud-office-suites,2-690.html
http://www.pcworld.com/article/236722/office_365_vs_google_apps_vs_zoho_docs.html?page=2
The problems are 2 fold:
1) Google Docs has become way too slow to use. It wasn't too bad round about the time they bought writely.com but over time the code has gone more and more client side. I'm struggling on but it's come to a head and I'm going crazy.
2) My wife has a Mac... but we didn't buy Office yet. I thought she'd be OK with Mac Sheets but it seems to irritate her from time to time. She still has access to an older, non online copy of Excel on a work laptop and usually there's a computer around with a copy of Excel which doesn't have version control
So...
- have you found Office online to be resource heavy? It looks heavy now I'm testing it... what's your experience? I'm not sure I trust the platform. Zoho seems lighter on resources?
- might zoho be an irritation for my wife to learn? Should she make Zoho her go to workplace and then use Excel only occassionally but carefully if doing so? Or should we kill Excel and Mac Sheets?
- perhaps we should carry on with files and just try to manage it by using a shared online drive?
+ anything else to bear in mind?
It's a little Shopify project we're working on but the use of this groupware I expect to grow beyond that
here's a couple of articles for reference. Neither address my concerns of vendor lock-in and performance:
http://www.tomsitpro.com/articles/cloud-office-suites,2-690.html
http://www.pcworld.com/article/236722/office_365_vs_google_apps_vs_zoho_docs.html?page=2
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