ThinkFree and Australia’s BigPond announced this week that ThinkFree will be providing their online office suite to BigPond customers as BigPond Office.
SAN JOSE, Calif. and MELBOURNE, Australia (November 6, 2007) - ThinkFree, a leading provider of Internet-enabled productivity software, has announced that it is working with BigPond, Australia’s largest Internet service provider, to power a set of Web-based productivity tools. The tools will be offered to the public as BigPond Office, now available at www.bigpondoffice.com.au.
BigPond Office allows users to create, edit, collaborate on, store, publish and share word processing, spreadsheet and presentation documents. It is compatible with document formats used by popular productivity suites such as Microsoft Office and Adobe Acrobat. It will be available for use wherever BigPond access customers have Internet access worldwide, and it is offered free of charge to BigPond Broadband Members.
BigPond has exclusive rights to ThinkFree’s office productivity suite in Australia and New Zealand as part of a multi-year technology licensing agreement.
"ThinkFree is proud to be supplying technology to BigPond," said TJ Kang, founder and CEO of ThinkFree. "While other telecommunications companies are struggling to overcome the increasingly commoditized world of data access and data storage, Telstra (BigPond’s parent company) is building new revenue streams while providing users with the services they need." Source: ThinkFree - ThinkFree Powers BigPond Office
This is something that is better for customers that spam, spyware, and firewall solutions in my thinking because it helps people get stuff done. How many people have computers at home and need to write a letter, etc? Even open and print a document. These are things that people, I think, get more stuck on than getting rid of spam, viruses, or spyware. All of these can be found online, for free, and with awesome features. Office suites? Yes, there is OpenOffice, but it is nearly as huge, it seems, as MS Office. ThinkFree is light, compatible, and familiar. What could be better?
Congrats to ThinkFree on this deal.
November 10th, 2007 at 2:14 am
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November 15th, 2007 at 4:04 pm
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April 30th, 2008 at 2:09 am
i was an avid thinkfree user last year before the deal with big pond. i went off it once i had the big pond window pop up whenever i accessed the site. now i cant even access my old documents on thinkfree at all. i have some important documents there which i was stupid enough not to backup and now i am stuck. now all i can say is thinkfree is crap and who knows what they will do next. imagine if they crack a deal with microsoft and sell out on everyone. i’m moving to google docs