Google's Sneaky Re-Release of Writely

Where's the comparison between Writely and Windows Live Writer? Word and Writely are not true competition; people who could be served by Writely could be served by OpenOffice Writer, or even WordPad. Real Word users will find Writely inadequate.

I am a little concerned about the accuracy of the details of this article. For instance, this article mentions that "word counts" are not a feature Writely supports.

In fact, Writely does have a word count feature. In any document, just select "Edit" -> "Count Words."

Open Office Writer is very good. I have been more than three years without using MS-Word(r), and doing complex documents, creating RFC´s, RFP´s, complex models for capacity planning and load prediction with Open Office Calc. In fact Open Office 2 is the biggest open source project in the world. Nobody can ignore that. The Web based Writely is a good option to avoid the "My Desktop" dependency and be free from the "computer in the studio´s corner at home" paradigm. Change and innovation always offends to laggards. Three hurras for Writely.

Usually when you see the word SPELL with a check mark next to it, that's a spell checker.

Thanks Bob for pointing out that Writely does in fact have a word count function.

I must have missed it when I first looked over its feature set. That said, there are probably other features I am yet to uncover.

And Olu, you're right that there are other online word processing services available. I might look to do a comparison of the other services available at some point in the future.