June 26, 2008
HyperOffice Review - updated
Updated HyperOffice review.
I recently discovered that I made at least one major and critical mistake in my review of HyperOffice. It turns out that the sales rep did not drop the ball as I stated. The transition to support was done completely by email and I failed to keep on top of my email for that. Let's just say that was definitely an "egg on my face" oversight on my part. Man, I don't like egg on my face. LOL
I did some further research and found out some other things about HyperOffice I got wrong. While I pride myself on doing thorough research, as I've mentioned in the past I'm human and I do get things wrong from time to time.
One of the other big things I didn't know that is important to me personally is that HyperOffice is now Mac Compatible! It's nice to see a company paying attention to the growing Mac marketshare.
I'm going to see if I can at least get some sort of list of current features/benefits or some sort of press-release from HyperOffice to put up while I work on updating my review as I need to doublecheck a lot of the facts I had been gathering.
Stay tuned. 
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We have just started to use hyperoffice again. Hyperoffice now has a self-publishing feature that needs to be marketed to the public because it is really quite amazing. I was able to competely revamp our hyperoffice menu and really make it easy to use.
This self publishing feature gives the user a freedom to get rid of all the menu buttons in hyperoffice which makes the interface confusing to the non techies. Using my background in bulletin boards, I was able to create an aol like feel. Sorry but it is a private network so cant be viewed privately.
I hear you Michael. I really screwed up my initial review because apparently HyperOffice came out with a lot of great new features I wasn't aware of over the past months.
The problem is I had started ignoring all their emails and not logging in at all.
The fact that HyperOffice's HyperDrive is now Mac Compatible is no small matter either as a lot of people are migrating to the Mac from the PC.
Plus I've been learning a bit about their IPhone integration which is going to be incredibly useful as a significantly less expensive alternative (not to mention easier-to-manage) to Microsoft Exchange.
But the thing that has me really excited and likely looking at HyperOffice seriously once again is the completely new interface that they've been working on that I believe will be launched close to the end of the year.
Wow. I'm glad I found this blog. The other reviews I stumbled on were so old.
I had no idea that HyperOffice was even really in the game any more.
We were looking at WebOffice. Can anyone tell me how HyperOffice might
compare to WebOffice?
Andrew, sorry it's been so long since you posted. I know someone who's used Web Office. I'll see if they're still using it.
But from I understand HyperOffice is going to be coming out with an interface that blows the current one out of the water and I'm betting a lot of the other collaboration tools' interfaces out of the water as well.
One thing to keep in mind about a company that's been a pioneer in an industry as HyperOffice has is that there's often a cultural mindset within the company that continues to drive innovative and useful developments.
You can read about some of the major influencers in web development that have come out of the HyperOffice company at Wikipedia here.