I played around a bit with Docs.com. So happy that MSFT is going in this direction, but there’s still a ways to go.
Here’s a copy of my thoughts. The originals (feel free to edit the document to add your own thoughts) are in the document.
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Feels like Word. Cool!
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Click on Spell Check. Looks like it only checks the word the cursor’s on. Lame. Is this some attempt to make docs.com not as great as the full version? Boo. When a feature is F-R-E-E in your gmail, you expect it to be free in something like this. Not doable? Yeah right.
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No track changes. OK, maybe this isn’t an expected feature, but it would have been nice.
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No simultaneous editing. You have to click “Finish Editing” at the top you won’t be able to open the doc on another device.
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As I just learned the hard way, “Finish Editing” doesn’t mean “Save and Finish Editing”. Two separate actions. Who reads the warning boxes anyway? Feels like instead of having the “Are you sure you want to navigate away from this page” thing with OK and Cancel, which looks like it’s from your browser (Looks just like when you hit Back and your browser warns you that you’re going to resend data to the server.), it should be a box that’s clearly from the docs app that says “What do you want to do with your unsaved changes?” and then have buttons that say “Discard and Close”, “Save and Close”, and “Cancel and continue working”.
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Docs app crashes iPad Safari solid. Totally unusable in iPad Safari.
