Office Web Applications

This morning the Office Blog announced some additions to Office Web Apps including the ability to embed PowerPoint presentations and Excel spreadsheets into your webpage or blog. I met with Senior Product Manager Even Lew to tell us more and walk us through the new features. More details at The…

Since the announcement of the upcoming Microsoft Office Web Applications at this year’s PDC, there has been a lot of excitement about this new service which will allow for creating, editing, collaborating, and sharing documents using the web. However, as I’ve followed the blog posts about this…

There’s a new recruiting campaign going on now for Microsoft Office 2010 beta testers. According to this page on Microsoft Connect, the company is looking for participants for “Microsoft’s Office 2010 Real Life Stories program.” These participants can be anyone – a home user, a student, a small…

By now, you’ve probably heard the big news announced at Microsoft’s Wordwide Partner Conference in New Orleans: Office 2010 is now available as a “Technical Preview.” Starting today, the company is opening up the beta program to a larger number of users, all of whom will get to try the new,…

Interested in getting the latest news and updates about the recently announced Office 2010 Technical Preview, the first release of the new Office PC, mobile, and web-based productivity applications? If so, then there are a number of places across the social web where you can stay tuned in.  The…

A new post on the Office Web Apps blog discusses some of the major tenets that have been driving the design and engineering of this new service launching alongside the upcoming Office 2010 software. The post describes how the team focused on trustworthiness, the familiar Office user experience, and…

On Wednesday, Microsoft launched its new Office software, Office 2010, for business customers. The launch included both the desktop-based software as well as the highly-anticipated online component, Office Web Apps. Non-business customers will get the upgrade June 15th, when Office 2010 becomes…

No more waiting, the highly-anticipated Office Web Apps are now live. If you live in the U.S., the U.K., Canada or Ireland*, you’re the first to have access to the new web-based versions of Microsoft Office’s most popular programs, Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote. Just head over to…

Docs.com, the application that lets you view, create and share Microsoft Office files on Facebook, has just been updated with new features aimed to improve document organization and discovery. According to a post on the Docs blog, you can now tag your documents with keywords, which will allow you…

The big news this week was definitely the start of the Microsoft Office Web Apps Technical Preview program. As of Thursday, September 17th, a limited number of participants received access to the new web-based version of Microsoft Office, which includes web apps for Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and…