ThinkFree Releases Netbook Survey

ThinkFree recently offered a free Netbook Edition license if you answer a simple survey. And the results are as follows:

Economic downturn has spurred people to buy netbooks:

With consumer confidence tumbling, users have become extremely sensitive to price points. Twenty-six percent will spend less for holiday gifts this year than just one year ago. Given this scenario, easy and affordable cloud computing applications may gain further market proliferation over the coming months.  Netbook computers make a perfect companion to cloud computing applications.

And people use Netbooks for:

  • Business
    • Contact management
    • Calendar/task management
    • Document review, minor edits, emergency editing, edit on the go
    • Basic spreadsheets and presentations
    • View and edit PDF documents
  • Blogging
    • Blog posting
    • Basic image editing
  • Entertainment
    • Web browsing
    • Music, iTunes
  • Communications
    • Email
    • Instant messaging
    • VoIP, Skype

Finally, people demand the following from their netbook applications:

  • Speed
    • High speed performance
    • Quick start up
    • Fast file load and save
  • Small
    • Light on resources
    • Low disk space and RAM requirements
  • Simple
    • Easy to learn and use
    • No feature bloat
  • Compatibility
    • e.g. MS Office 2007, 2003
  • Optimization
    • Adaptation to smaller screen dimension
    • Modern, concise UI

I’ll post a review of ThinkFree Office Netbook edition once I’m done playing with it.

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