ThinkFree Online Gives Consumers A Complete Productivity Suite
San Jose, Calif. — ThinkFree, Inc., a provider of office productivity software, today announced ThinkFree Online, a free Web service that gives busy families, students and business professionals an easy way to manage tasks and keep everyone up-to-date.
ThinkFree Online is the first Internet-based office productivity suite to blend the best of the Internet’s collaboration features with Microsoft Office suite compatibility. Novice users and IT enthusiasts alike will find the three applications — ThinkFree Write for word processing, ThinkFree Calc for spreadsheet management and ThinkFree Show for creating presentations — intuitive to learn and use. Simply register at www.thinkfree.com to begin experiencing the suite’s unique set of creativity and communications tools for connecting with family, friends and business colleagues.
[B]Key features of ThinkFree Online include:[/B]
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[*] Collaborative capabilities for group document editing and file sharing
[*] Document tagging to allow optimal organization and categorization
[*] 1 GB of free upgradeable online storage
[*] Ability to publish documents to a Web page, blog or Internet application
[*] Easy insertion of images through Flickr, the online photo management community, to share more vivid personal images of life events
[*] Ability to set different collaboration levels, from completely private to accessible by anyone on the Web
[*] Consistent user interface regardless of computing platform
[*] Ajax and Java technology support, which gives users the ability to do
quick edits as well as power edits for more complex documents
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ThinkFree Online offers easy integration with existing Microsoft Office documents without the need to reformat, learn a new application or install any new software on the user’s device. It provides support for multiple operating systems — Windows, Macintosh and Linux — and multiple Web browsers*, making it an ideal solution for students, business travelers and others who use shared or multiple computers.
Breaking down geographical barriers by delivering a truly collaborative suite, ThinkFree Online unleashes the power of sharing ideas, stories and business content from any Internet-enabled device, at any time. Business users can say goodbye to e-mailing documents home or carrying their files and applications around with them. For consumers, ThinkFree Online provides a great tool for managing wedding planning details across the miles, sharing recipes, publishing club newsletters or collaborating on projects for their church or social group.
“Users now have a very accessible, very easy-to-use online productivity suite that helps them be more organized, more creative, and to more easily share their work using the collaborative capabilities of the Internet,” said TJ Kang, founder and CEO of ThinkFree, Inc. “ThinkFree Online is the product of our vision to provide a Microsoft Office-compatible suite that the whole world can take advantage of from any device that is connected to the Internet.”
The Web interface is localized for U.S. English. Built-in multi-lingual application support is included for UK English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Korean, simplified and traditional Chinese, and Japanese.
Recommended hardware includes 100 MB free hard disk space to use ThinkFree Online Power Edit features. Macintosh G4/G5 systems are recommended for Apple users.
*ThinkFree Online has been tested on most computers and browsers, including Internet Explorer 6.0 FireFox 1.5 and Safari 2.0. Operating systems supported include Microsoft Windows 98/ME/2000/XP, Mac OS X 10.4, Linux Fedora Core 3 and Haansoft Linux Workstation 2005.
[B]About ThinkFree[/B]
ThinkFree Inc., headquartered in San Jose, Calif., is a leading developer of platform-independent office productivity solutions. A division of Haansoft Inc., a publicly held company on the Korean KOSDAQ stock market, ThinkFree’s mission is to offer market-leading software solutions that leverage the power of the Internet and provide users with a consistent, unified and productive experience regardless of computing platform. For more information, please contact ThinkFree at +1 408 432 5074, or go to http://www.thinkfree.com/.
