The Live Documents service was launched last week by Bangalore-based Instant Collaboration Software Technologies (InstaColl), a start-up founded by Sabeer Bhatia – a co-founder of the phenomenally successful Hotmail services.
Mr Bhatia rose to international prominence in the industry when in 1997 he sold Hotmail to Microsoft for US$400 million.
Live Documents is a full-featured suite of online Office productivity applications offering functionality equivalent to Word, Excel and PowerPoint that can be used through any computer with a browser.
The Live Documents service also allows online collaboration and sharing of documents. The hybrid online-offline service lets users work on documents offline on any PC that runs Flash software, regardless of the operating system.
“Live Documents offers a unique perspective on Office productivity and collaboration that merges the best of two worlds - the richness and familiarity of desktop software with the collaborative capabilities of the web,” InstaColl chairman Sabeer Bhatia.
“It provides a reliable bridge between the online and offline worlds that consumers and businesses can count on, he said.”
“Live Documents is the new productivity suite for the internet generation providing flexibility lacking in traditional software while retaining that which is important from the past and extending it with unique collaborative capabilities.
“I believe that Live Documents does for documents what Hotmail did for e-mail,” Mr Bhatia said.
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