Web Office Comparison Chart – Zoho / ThinkFree / Google Basic Read the full article at: www.icthubknowledgebase.org.uk/comparingweboffice Feature
Zoho Free Office Suite (demo)
ThinkFree Online Edition
Google Basic
0
0
0
Zoho Virtual office Beta demo. (Free for individuals) 400MB No
No
GMail
No No
2.7GB GMail Fetch
Not known Not known
No No No No
Yes Yes Import CSV file Need third party tools
Yes Not known No
No No No
Yes CSV file
Yes Yes Yes Yes, via Office plug-in Medium Not known
Yes Yes Yes Yes Fast 10MB
Yes Yes No No
700MB Yes
1GB GMail, Hotmail, Outlook,
Cost Email Email Client
Email Storage Import/send email from external POP accounts Calendar Calendar client Calendar Sharing Import Outlook calendar events Synchronise calendar with Outlook and iCal Address Book Contact management Import contacts from Outlook Synchronise contacts with Outlook Docs & Spreadsheets Word Processing Spreadsheet Presentation Offline Use Editing speed on large documents Document size limit Document storage limit Email Collaboration/sharing of
Yes
500K, + up to 2MB per embedded image 500MB GMail
Zoho Free Office Suite (demo)
Feature documents Document tagging RSS feeds Import file formats Export file formats Browsing and Blogging Publish to web or blog Browse documents online
Yes No doc, open office, html, rtf.
Contact Relationship Manager
Google Basic
Yes Yes doc, .xls, .open office, .csv, rtf, txt, html doc, .xls, .open office, .csv, rtf, html, pdf
doc, open office, pdf, odt, rtf, txt, html
doc, .xls,.ppt, html, pdf
Post to blog or share url link to document Browser plugins for Firefox and IE
Post to blog or share url link to document View documents in a Google or Yahoo homepage ThinkFree document viewer for Wordpress Yes IE, Firefox, Safari
Share url to document
No No No No
Yes No Google Base, free No
No
No
Blogging plug-ins Portable Edition Web Browser Support Other office tools Notebook Wiki Database Project Manager
ThinkFree Online Edition Thunderbird Yes Yes .doc, .xls,.ppt, txt, rtf
No No IE, Firefox, Safari Coming soon Free Zoho Creator, Free Free for open source projects Free for upto 3 users
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No
No No IE, Firefox, Safari
