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June 09, 2010
Office Web Apps Now Online
By The consumer edition of Microsoft's (News - Alert) Office Web Apps hit the market on Monday, so users can now create, edit, and store their Office documents online through their SkyDrive storage space. You can access the free Web Apps on your Windows Live page where you'll find options to create content in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote.
The initial release is available in the U.S., Canada, Great Britain, and Ireland, according to Microsoft, and supports English, Spanish, and French. The company promises to add more locations and languages over the next few months.
The business edition of Office Web Apps that was unveiled last month works only with SharePoint 2010 as the document repository. If you don't use SharePoint at your organization, you may find the consumer SkyDrive version a viable option if you want your users to be able to store and access their Office documents in the cloud.
Office Web Apps gives you a healthy range of basic commands and controls over your online Office documents. You can create, view, edit, delete and rename those documents through your browser. You can download them and share them with another person by emailing a link to your public documents. You can also collaborate on the same document with other people within your organization. You can even upload Office documents from your PC to your SkyDrive storage space, either by selecting them through a dialog box or by dragging and dropping them onto the upload page (the latter requires that Microsoft Silverlight be installed).
You don't even need Office installed locally to be able to work with Office Web Apps-it's all browser and cloud based, though certain advanced features will only be available if you use Office 2010. You can work with Office Web Apps through Internet Explorer 7 or 8, Google (News - Alert) Chrome, Firefox 3.5 or higher, and Safari 4 or higher. Microsoft also says you can tap into your Office cloud on a variety of smartphones via such mobile browsers as IE, Safari, and Opera.
Microsoft's blog promises more information when the consumer version of Office 2010 is released next week, including details on how you can use Office 2010 and SkyDrive and Web Apps together on PCs, smartphones, and Web browsers. Stay tuned…
The business edition of Office Web Apps that was unveiled last month works only with SharePoint 2010 as the document repository. If you don't use SharePoint at your organization, you may find the consumer SkyDrive version a viable option if you want your users to be able to store and access their Office documents in the cloud.
Office Web Apps gives you a healthy range of basic commands and controls over your online Office documents. You can create, view, edit, delete and rename those documents through your browser. You can download them and share them with another person by emailing a link to your public documents. You can also collaborate on the same document with other people within your organization. You can even upload Office documents from your PC to your SkyDrive storage space, either by selecting them through a dialog box or by dragging and dropping them onto the upload page (the latter requires that Microsoft Silverlight be installed).
You don't even need Office installed locally to be able to work with Office Web Apps-it's all browser and cloud based, though certain advanced features will only be available if you use Office 2010. You can work with Office Web Apps through Internet Explorer 7 or 8, Google (News - Alert) Chrome, Firefox 3.5 or higher, and Safari 4 or higher. Microsoft also says you can tap into your Office cloud on a variety of smartphones via such mobile browsers as IE, Safari, and Opera.
Microsoft's blog promises more information when the consumer version of Office 2010 is released next week, including details on how you can use Office 2010 and SkyDrive and Web Apps together on PCs, smartphones, and Web browsers. Stay tuned…
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