Anthony Doesburg reviews esolutions' ASP offering. After an hour or two of using the service to run Microsoft Word across the Internet, I can report it functions at least as fast as an older version of the software does on my local hard drive. And getting the software to work remotely is surprisingly pain-free.
Applications launch briskly.
I was prepared for sluggish performance using Word remotely, after Office Online pilot tester ASB Bank complained that it was slow. The test is hardly scientific, however, since I'm running Word 97 locally and esolutions provides Word 2000. So if the remote connection is acting as a brake, Microsoft has clearly performed miracles in speeding up Word between the 97 and 2000 versions. There is no discernible speed difference between the two. Saving files is straightforward.