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Old 09-30-2013, 10:38 PM   #16
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Most likely it simply calls/stores webpages as embedded IE objects. That's what OneNote does. It might be the next version of OneNote though I doubt it; OneNote is about capturing and organizing information from multiple sources and this is more about displaying and annotating information from multiple source types without changing it.
Slight distinction but a critical one if they are aiming for the academic textbook market.
I say that it's features are the features of a browser, and you reply by comparing it to OneNote
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I say that it's features are the features of a browser, and you reply by comparing it to OneNote
Because it more closely resembles OneNote--an offline application--than it does a browser. And because in the Windows world of live embedded objects, displaying web pages is not for browsers only.
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Gee my post is beginning to sound like a rant ... oops ... not intended ... just writing out loud so to speak trying to justify to myself as to why I use one thing over another, I think
Nah, you didn't get enough of a head of steam.

I use LibreOffice myself--if you're going to be free of big corps, might as well be free of Oracle, too. And I like Softmaker Office enough to pay for it. Both are useful in their spaces.

But for the more robust and complicated projects I stick with MS Office.
(At work I oncr oversaw an effort that built, in months, a complete advanced economic analysis tool using MS Office modules: excel provided the compute engine, project the scheduling, word the text editing, and powerpoint the graphics. It allowed the coders to spend 75% of the time we were paying for on the underlying algorithms and debugging the analysis logic. It was production-ready from day one. Then the PTB spent 10 times as much and three years duplicating the functionality into a standalone C++ app.)

The reason the free (and "free") suites haven't much dented MS Office domination is that there is way more to it than just the three core desktop apps. There's the entire server side of the family and Project and Visio that are totally unchallenged. The SDK alone puts it in a different category for corporate use.

There's room for everybody but too much time and emotion is wasted waving fists.

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Because it more closely resembles OneNote--an offline application--than it does a browser. And because in the Windows world of live embedded objects, displaying web pages is not for browsers only.
What features does this app have that can't be found on Firefox or Chrome?
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