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The term Office 2.0 is a marketing neologism representing the concepts of office productivity applications as published applications rather than standalone programs. The term leverages the Web 2.0 concept to conjure imagery of collaborative, community based and centralised effort rather than the more traditional application running on a platform locally.

The term originated with Ismael Ghalimi ^[1] in an experimental effort to test the hypothesis that it could be done today, that he could perform all of his computer based work in online applications.

Contents 1 Examples 2 Criticism 3 Development 4 See also 5 References

Examples of where the term Office 2.0 may apply include

• The centralised administration of office productivity software, installation, licensing and version control;
• Centralised storage of data, rather than traditional personal data responsibility;
• Applications which focus on collaborative data sharing, document review and document resource management;
• Office applications which are able to be run from multiple independent platforms with a suitable back-end framework to present the application in a uniform manner.

As with most marketing neologisms which later become accepted public trends, technologists contend that these technologies have existed for some time, particularly in the form of Microsoft Terminal Services based applications and Citrix MetaFrame published application frameworks. The term itself is likely to only be used as a reference to a group of selling points.

Office 2.0 applications are often developed on the Web 2.0 paradigms with leverage on the existing developer community. Players come from both the commercial software market and from the open source, free software communities.

• Web desktop
• Web 2.0
• Office Suite
• Web operating system
• Towards the Online Office
• The first Office 2.0 conference
• The second Office 2.0 conference

1. ^ Ismael Ghalimi. Introduction to Office 2.0.