Killer demo? Listen to the keyboards

by on February 27, 2007

I have a new way for rating how cool a demo is.

How many keystrokes per second can I count? You know, tap, tap, tap, tap on keyboards.

Virtual Ubiquity is on stage right now showing off a killer Word Processor that works online. Teaches Microsoft quite a few lessons. Will be out in May.

All done in Adobe stuff and it just takes online apps a whole step forward in what I’ll expect to see from now on.

I’m sure there’ll be tons of words written about this shortly.

But. my takeaway is how excited the keyboard tapping is. Sounds like the hail that was hitting our windows last night. Tap, tap, tap.

  • they are not showing anything!
  • Al: coming in May. I'm sure you'll hear a LOT more about this company between now and then.
  • Dan
    All done in Adobe stuff - that'll be an embedded Flash applet then? Why not use Java? Mind you, ThinkFree released their fully-functional MS Office-rivalling Java suite about six years ago...

    TBH I can't see how Ajax based online apps (Zoho, D&S etc.) will ever rival desktop or embedded apps. Javascript just isn't as powerful.
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  • watever
    [offtopic]

    http://innerdaemon.wordpress.com/2007/02/27/job...

    luks like some1 predicted..
  • Gael
    Microsoft needs to have a WPF/e based Office suite. They should even have a verison of Outlook web access running on WPF/e, and make it the default.
  • Ross
    Dan@4

    It *is* Flash, but it is built with Flex which is worth a day's worth of research of anyone's time (assuming you can code). There is a 30 day trial I believe.
  • Well ive never been a massive fan of microsoft they always make messups but i am forced to use there products... :
  • All done in Adobe stuff - that’ll be an embedded Flash applet then? Why not use Java? Mind you, ThinkFree released their fully-functional MS Office-rivalling Java suite about six years ago…

    TBH I can’t see how Ajax based online apps (Zoho, D&S etc.) will ever rival desktop or embedded apps. Javascript just isn’t as powerful.
  • Keith Patrick
    I'm one of those people who does not consider a Flash app to be a "web application", regardless of whether or not HTML is hosting the runtime (which is basically what Flash is in this context) It can do some very cool stuff, and is rather ubiquitous (although I have to disable it; I use Remote Desktop too much, and Flash-enabled sites tend to go so far overboard that my remote session makes Windows feel like GEOS on an underclocked Commodore64), but it can be (and I've run into this issue on several occasions and is a real customer concern) a problem when web users don't expect to have to install software to start working (and at least at my current org, there are a surprising amount of target PCs without Shockwave)
  • Those keyboard clicks may be telling you how many people are ignoring the demo and doing email.
  • Shel: nah, I'm filtering for those. Why? Cause that causes a consistent level of clicking. When a killer demo (or something controversial) comes on stage the clicking dramatically increases as people twitter and blog away.
  • you need to watch out for peoples head nods too - its a sure fire sign. i love it when you even hear them when talking to clients on the phone. head nods and hammering on keys - those are the signs.
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  • I think this is a great idea. But it is a microsoft product, so keep cool and wait for an stable release! ;-)
  • OK, talking about word processing, why is this the first one? What about Google Docs?

    And I really think, that data protection is an important topic on SaaS-Applications.
  • Datenschutz: this isn't the first Word processor. It's just the coolest online one I've seen so far.

    Catbyte: it's not a Microsoft product.
  • Hi Robert, i share your opinion totally. It's a very cool application!
  • Killer demo? I think this is a great idea.
  • It is a microsoft product they are not showing anything!
  • I try so far it me possible am the products from Microsoft to to be avoided. However this attempt is not to be seized always possible and one again times in a forced manner on it back.
  • MS would be insane if they didn't follow suite. It is a very cool demo.
  • They are missing the best and most influential of times in the blogosphere for a company and especially in an area of new products or applications. Here is a cutting edge technology company that is rolling out some exciting stuff and what are they doing to capitalize?
  • It is a microsoft product they are not showing anything
    thanks :)
  • Thanks for very interesting article. btw. I really enjoyed reading all of your posts. It’s interesting to read ideas, and observations from someone else’s point of view… makes you think more. So please keep up the great work. Greetings.
  • I will now testing the Killer Demo.
    I lioke adobe stuff.

    Greats
  • Well ive never been a massive fan of microsoft they always make messups but i am forced to use there products..
  • Those keyboard clicks may be telling you how many people are ignoring the demo and doing email.
  • I´d like great software, from ms too.
    But why it´s called Killer Demo??
  • Those keyboard clicks may be telling you how many people are ignoring the demo and doing email.
  • Udo
    I got an error 'Bad Request (Invalid Hostname)'.
    Is this demo down?
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