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title: "Why you need a Web Office"
date: 2006-02-24
author: "Richard MacManus"
categories:
  - name: "ReadWriteWeb"
    url: "/category/readwriteweb.md"
tags:
  - name: "2006"
    url: "/tag/2006.md"
---

# Why you need a Web Office

When my post about [Web Office Suite](https://web.archive.org/web/20081202184437/http://blogs.zdnet.com/web2explorer/?p=123) products got [Slashdotted](https://web.archive.org/web/20081202184437/http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/02/21/2118233), one of the main issues amongst Slashdot commenters was: why do we even need a Web Office? [This comment](https://web.archive.org/web/20081202184437/http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=178136&cid=14771537) by Eightyford put it best:

> “What are the advantages of having an online Office Suite? I’d say that the disadvantages include: security issues, slow speed, dependance on internet connection, limited features, harder to program, and probably many others. What is the point?”

It’s a very good question and in [my latest ZDNet post](https://web.archive.org/web/20081202184437/http://blogs.zdnet.com/web2explorer/?p=125) I try to answer it.

\[[Full story at ZDNet…](https://web.archive.org/web/20081202184437/http://blogs.zdnet.com/web2explorer/?p=125)\]

*Originally published on ReadWriteWeb ([archived copy](https://web.archive.org/web/20020204040018/http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/30_boxes_review.php))*