May 8th, 2013

Coming Soon To Microsoft’s Office Web Apps: Real-Time Co-Authoring, Editing On Android Tablets, Easier File Management

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Microsoft’s Office Web Apps have been around since 2010. Since then, they have slowly morphed from lightweight document viewers to relatively full-blown Office apps. Going forward, Microsoft senior product marketing manager Amanda Lefebvre wrote in a blog post last night, the plan is “to deliver Office Web Apps that people can rely on to create polished Office documents from start to finish, all… → Read More

October 22nd, 2012

Microsoft Takes The Preview Label Off Its Updated Office Web Apps, Now Available For All SkyDrive Users

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After a few months of public beta testing, Microsoft is taking the preview label of its updated Office Web Apps for SkyDrive today and making these new versions of its free web-based versions of Word, Excel, OneNote and PowerPoint the standard for all SkyDrive and Outlook.com users. With this update, Microsoft is also introducing a number of new features that weren’t available in the last preview… → Read More