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ZeroPC, 'Transferable, Lifetime Desktop In The Cloud,' Debuts Globally And At Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco

Interactive "Round-Table" Collaboration. Through ZeroPC's strategic partnership with Talkwheel.com, users can have real-time communications online as a group, plus share their documents, photos or social content while interacting together.

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Bundled Productivity Suite in a Browser. ZeroPC provides applications to help users stay productive wherever they go. ZeroPC includes the ThinkFree Online Office Suite that looks, feels and delivers the performance of familiar Microsoft productivity tools. Consumers, schools and business users can create new word processing documents, spreadsheets and graphic presentations, or open, edit and share existing Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents previously created on local computers. ZeroPC users do not need to pay any extra licensing fees for the robust capability of ThinkFree office productivity tools, and no additional software installations are required to instantly access, create and share documents and files anywhere.

Global Security. ZeroPC uses high-quality, redundant servers hosted by Amazon Web Services in multiple worldwide locations to store all user content and data. Utilizing Amazon's reliable infrastructure Web services platform in the cloud enables the ZeroPC service to be available to global consumers, schools and businesses.


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