Zoho Announcements - How about three of them?
Raju Vegesna November 30, 2006 07: 41 am
Today, we announce three different additions to Zoho.
1. Zoho Plugin for Microsoft Office
2. Zoho APIs
3. Desktopize for Zoho (Download)
We are very excited about the plugin for Microsoft Office as this extends the Office functionality online offering mobility etc….or should I say ‘This is what Office Live is supposed to be’ 
The screenshot below may not do justice to its functionality. I recommend trying it out if you are a Microsoft Office user. Writer and Sheet connects in to Word and Excel respectively.
Zoho APIs is our first major step towards opening up our applications to be integrated into other services. With these well defined APIs, other web apps can now integrate closely with Zoho applications.
Desktopize, our partner customized their offering for Zoho making our applications behave more like a desktop application. If you like desktop shortcuts, quick tray access, Drag-n-drop documents into Zoho apps, I recommend installing this application.
More detailed posts about each of these releases will follow. Do drop us a line about your views on these announcements.
Update :
# Techcrunch covered this Zoho update. Thanks to Natali & Mike!
# For details on Zoho API, see the Zoho API developer guide
# Download your copy of Zoho Plug-in for Microsoft Office now.
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Raju:- Great plugin thanks.
Also you may need to update your TechCrunch link to http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/11/30/the-real-office-live-zoho-bridges-online-and-offline-office-apps/
rather than the GM Diet link
Regards,
Rushi
Oops….Thanks for the pointer Rushi. I just updated it.
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ok, nice! But when will the .docx be supported?
Thanks Thomas for your comments. We are having the .docx support in our roadmap. We will do it in our upcoming version of the Plug-in.
Ranjith
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Thomas,
Not yet, on the Mac, but it is something we have in mind.
Thanks,
Sridhar
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hey im like a little bit confused lol i need helpon this site and what is it mainly about?? what is it mainly for??and is there any aussie people on here that you know of?? call me on 0413329129 and explain what this site is please
Hello, great plug in, the only thing i dont get is how when u save the docs through this plug in, the docs dont show up in the virtual office document section. Shouldn’t they all be linked?
Asad:
You raise an important point. Yes, they all are supposed to be linked and they sure will be linked. This is part of the roadmap.
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Hi there,
Great plugin, really makes Zoho a useable product for me.
Only problem - I open a sheet from Zoho, edit it but when I try and save it I get “This workbook is not available in Zoho Sheet.Do you want to add it?”
Any idea’s why?
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