Zoho Writer Goes Offline In a Good Way

Zoho is announcing a major update to their Zoho Writer product today. In the past year, they introduced the ability to read your Zoho Writer documents offline via Google Gears. Today, you can now edit the files offline as well. Frankly I've stuck with MS office because of the ability to work offline - since I have no mobile access, it's made sense. As I look to moving to a new Mac and losing all my current software, I have considered moving to a Web office suite to keep the conversion costs low.

Check out a video overview of the offline product below.

This is a big update for the product as it now can begin to consider Microsoft Office competition along with Google Docs. The ability to work offline seems to be an issue for many Internet apps. I am guessing offline mode for the other Zoho apps is in development as well. Check out our previous Zoho coverage.

Editor's note: Zoho is a current CN sponsor.