Adobe buys Buzzword

I just heard about this little start up out of Boston called Virtual Ubiquity on a post on basement.org, they have created a feature rich online word processor using Flash. I signed up for a preview account and I have to say I am really impressed with the functionality and ease of use.

The user-interface is clean and lean. They modified the standard way tool bars are displayed and trimmed them down so as not to distract nor reduce the available screen area. They have done a good job with keyboard shortcuts and I imagine as the features are fleshed out that will only continue to improve.

Now that Virtual Ubiquity has been scooped up by Adobe I image this will be only the beginning. I can easily see this heading to the desktop by way of AIR.

As it stands right now it a very usable application with all the most common features that we all use in a word processing application already available. The only shortcomings that I noticed is that there is only an English dictionary available and the list of available fonts is a little short.