Intro to Microsoft Office Web Apps

A Long-Awaited Update:

With Office Online Programs, Microsoft eventually brings the world's most popular productivity suite to the internet. Although the Office 2010 desktop update incorporates significant enhancements over previous versions -- including as further picture editing effects and document co-authoring capacities -- the most notable update to Microsoft's flagship office suite is the Web integration.

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Overview

Microsoft Office Internet Apps are browser based versions of Word, PowerPoint, Excel and OneNote. The internet applications make it possible for users to see, edit, and share their Office files from any Internet-connected device, such as mobile phones, Macs, and Linux programs (not all browsers or mobile devices might be supported, yet ).

Cloud-Based Office Suite:

Office Web Apps is a free, ad-supported service for private users with a Windows Live account (also free; there are over 400 million Live users as of this writing). With Office Web Programs, Microsoft is now competing against free online office suites such as Google Docs and other Office 2.0 suites like Zoho. Since Google Docs is allegedly widely utilized in 1 of every 5 offices, Office Web Apps represents a significant strategic step for Microsoft, the organization's first evidence of its commitment to cloud-based computing.

Office Internet Apps access can be available to business users using Office 2010 Professional Plus and Standard desktop applications licenses and enterprises can use a subscription based, hosted version of the apps via Microsoft Online Services. Companies who use Office Web Programs with SharePoint will also get more advanced enterprise-friendly features like more administrative controls along with broader mobile assistance.

Microsoft is emphasizing that these (free or complimentary) web programs supplement instead of substitute the Office desktop software. Office Web Programs, in other words, lacks some of the rich performance of the paid desktop software.

Focus on Collaboration and Accessibility

In addition to other new features in Office 2010, the Office package overall performs up collaboration, with attributes for sharing documents, emails, and appointments, as well as password-protecting and versioning those documents. From the new"Backstage" perspective, for instance, users can share documents with others by saving for them to SharePoint or to SkyDrive, Microsoft's internet storage site that offers a whopping 25GB of free space for each account.

Office Web Apps opens up that access and cooperation potential because you can edit and collaborate on documents from any Internet-connected computer. That is the best thing about cloud computing.

First Impressions

Office 2010 Beta gave some glimpse of the new web skills for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint (not OneNote, unfortunately). And you know what? Though in-browser editing for Word was still"to come" when I tested it out, it was a gorgeous thing to have the ability to edit an Excel spreadsheet from inside Firefox. I was able to store the Excel document to Skydrive (with a choice of shared or personal folders), see it in the browser a second afterwards, and watch my changes in 1 browser being revealed instantly in another browser window (i.e., as if I had been sharing it with a different individual ).

Though Office Web Programs offers limited functionality when compared with the desktop version (as well as compared to office suites which are entirely cloud established ), easy access to your files from where you are is always welcome.

Get Started using Office Web Apps

To Register to the free Office Web Programs, head over to http://office.live.com.

Intro to Microsoft Office Web Apps

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