The Competition William Wong ThinkFree is not alone in the rush to gain the hearts, minds and browsers of Internet users. Companies like ThinkFree currently have good ideas but with office applications less functional than those of the established players like Sun, Microsoft and Corel. Instead, what it's trying to do is provide most users with most of the functionality they use on a regular basis. For example, styles are very useful in a word processor, and ThinkFree's Write application has them. This is because most users do not know about, let alone use, these features.
Internet companies tend to take a more streamlined approach.
Unlike the application suites that can operate offline ,it can only be accessed online. MyWebOS comes with 20 MB of storage when you sign up. The desktop window looks a lot like the icon-based desktop of Windows but without the toolbar. None of the Internet-based solutions are exactly the same and most are incomplete at this time. Applications need to be added.