ThinkFree is an online application that runs (Write=Word) (Calc=Excel) (Show=PowerPoint) in a browser using a set of java applets and Ajax technology. Each user is given a 1 GB of online document storage. ThinkFree let users collaborate on docs with others; you also have the option to publish those documents to a blog or the web.
You need to create an account on ThinkFree website in order to use their service, an e-mail is send to you and you will need to confirm it, once you confirm your e-mail, you should be ready to go. The first screen page you get when you login to your account is the screenshot above. When you click on any of the office icons you will get a pop up window with a few options to choose like; the name of the file, and the type of editor you want, Quick Edit, or Power Edit. ThinkFree Quick Edit only give you the minimum features to edit documents and ThinkFree Power Edit lets you create fully Microsoft Office compatible documents with complex formatting like the screenshot below;
Does that look like Microsoft Office 2003 to you? No, is not my Office 2003 suite on my computer, is ThinkFree and is completely free to use. It pretty much resembles Microsoft Office 2003 Interface, I guess to facilitate the transition for hard coded Microsoft office users. Another cool feature about ThinkFree is that let you save documents are PDF files, which only Microsoft Office 2007 and Open Office have this feature.
During my testing time to write this document didn’t give me any trouble, the only negative point I got was the amount of time it took to open the actual application when I clicked on Write, but most of all the things open fairly quick and without any error.
Create an account at ThinkFree.com and give it a try…