Think Free

Before this assignment, I never heard of Think Free, so this was the perfect opportunity to check it out!  Their "Cloud Office, Everywhere" description on their webpage could be describing Google Docs, as it boasts of affording users the ease of collaborating in online Office Environments. 

The write up and the images support my presumptions of its similarities to Google Docs, especially with their beautiful concept map paired with its professional youtube promotional video. 




ThinkFree is not as its name suggests; it is not another run of the mill open office software programs.  In one of the write ups it claims that one of its special abilities is to export files as PDFs.  I just clicked over to my Google Docs and I can download word documents as a PDF.  It also claims it can work on Android devices where Google Docs cannot.  Tomorrow I will borrow my daughter's cell phone to test this claim.  For tonight, I found a website http://thinkfree-office.en.softonic.com/   so I can take a free look at the software; play with it to see what it can do!  While I thought I found a way to do an end run around the system, I should have read what I previously stated: I cannot play with this for free.  My only analysis can be made on the software claims, Youtube videos and random blogs on ThinkFree.  From my perch, do not see a difference between the currently free Google Docs and Think Free.  If I cannot use Google Docs on an Android phone tomorrow, that would be the tipping point toward paying for the service.