"What if there was alternative for Microsoft Word that would install and open in 6 seconds, read and write Microsoft Word .doc files and run on Macintosh, Microsoft Windows or Linux computers? And oh yeah, it was FREE so consumers didn't have to pay $499 for Microsoft Office. I'm excited to announce that day is here," says Michael Robertson, the rich businessman behind Linspire (formerly Lindows) and Nvu..
So, not only has he launched ajaxWrite, he says: "Every week we will launch a new sophisticated program on Wednesday at 12:00 PST on ajaxlaunch.com."
I encourage you to try ajaxWrite.com from Firefox 1.5, or newer, and experience the future of software firsthand. There's no cost. No registration required. Nothing to install. Not even an email address is required.
Comment: It doesn't work with Internet Explorer.
Update: In a post headed ajaxWrong, Alex Russel points out that the site's "marketing is truly reprehensible" because it doesn't actually use Ajax:
This thing is appropriating the necessarily amorphous terminology of "Ajax" for an implementation that is directly at odds with why Ajax is an important technology. A XUL app being billed as "Ajax" is just as laughable as a Flex or XAML app suddenly growing the same moniker. That it's Mozilla's walled-garden language doesn't really excuse the gaffe.
