????布雷特? 泰勒與凱文?吉布斯稱，文字處理軟件過去三十年來一直一成不變。最新版本的微軟（Microsoft）Word文字處理軟件仍然是幾行雜亂無章的工具欄，甚至連象征保存操作的軟盤圖標都還在。

????“現(xiàn)在的電腦根本就沒有軟盤了，”舊金山新創(chuàng)企業(yè)Quip的聯(lián)席創(chuàng)始人布雷特?泰勒說。去年，時任Facebook首席技術官的泰勒，以及谷歌（Google）App Engine的創(chuàng)造者吉布斯獨辟蹊徑，自行發(fā)布了一款產品。該產品利用了從個人電腦向智能手機和平板的快速過渡。憑借標桿資本風投公司（Benchmark Capital）、馬克?貝尼奧夫以及尤里?米爾納等投資的1,500萬美元，這款產品發(fā)展成了于本月面世的免費文字處理軟件Quip，適用于臺式機以及iOS設備。它的付費版本——Quip商業(yè)版的收費標準為每位用戶每月12美元，每個賬戶可由多達250名用戶使用，而且擁有管理控制面板等多種功能——相比之下，免費版每個賬戶只可由5名用戶使用。Android版本目前正在測試中。

????Quip在使用上和Word有幾分相似。用戶能在各種設備上使用Quip直接敲出文檔。用戶可以在PC機上完成大部分文本編輯工作，然后在手機或平板上瀏覽并簡單修改文檔。（如果想在移動設備上使用Word可不容易，用戶必須先注冊微軟的Offcie 365云服務。）吉布斯說：“直接把Word拿來放到小屏幕設備上可不是優(yōu)雅的做法，只會給用戶徒增煩惱。”

????According to Bret Taylor and Kevin Gibbs, word processors have been stuck in a rut for the last three decades. Launch the latest version of Microsoft Word, and there's the same cluttered array of toolbars, even a floppy disc button emblematic of saving progress.

????"Your PC doesn't even have a floppy disc anymore," muses Bret Taylor, co-founder of the San Francisco-based startup Quip. Last year, Taylor, then Facebook (FB) CTO, and Gibbs, creator of Google's (GOOG) App Engine, struck out on their own to release a product that took advantage of the rapid transition away from the PC toward the smartphone and tablet. With $15 million in backing from Benchmark Capital, Marc Benioff, Yuri Milner and others, the product evolved into Quip, a free word processor introduced this month for the desktop and iOS devices. A paid version, Quip Business, charges $12 a month per user, allows for up to 250 users per account -- versus the free version's five -- and adds features like an administrative dashboard. Testing of an Android version is also underway.

????To use it, Quip feels like the hipper, distant cousin to Word. Users may type out documents but also hop from device to device when doing so, writing out most of the file on their desktop, then skimming and lightly editing their content on the phone or tablet. (To compare, a version of Word is only available to mobile users if they subscribe to Microsoft's (MSFT) cloud-based Office 365 service.) "Just taking Word and putting it on the smaller screen would not just an inelegant thing, but a frustrating thing to use," says Gibbs.