Microsoft has officially revealed its Office Web Applications offerings ahead of the announcements at this years Worldwide Partner Conference today.Company officials have posted several "what's new" videos onto the Microsoft Showcase site. The what's new videos range from Word through to Outlook and some highlight the Web Applications and "Microsoft Mobile 2010". Blogger Long Zheng noticed the videos on Microsoft's site today.
Office Web Applications 2010
In the what's new video for Office Web Applications 2010, Word, Powerpoint and Excel are demonstrated. Microsoft also confirms these work on PC or Mac and in Firefox as can be seen below.
Office Web Applications are part of Microsoft's "software plus services" initiative where the company plans to deliver all its technology in this way. As part of the next release of Office, Microsoft are planning Office Web applications - lightweight versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote - through a browser. Running these new applications will allow individuals to use a browser to create, edit, and share Office documents wherever they are. Microsoft wants to provide a consistent Office experience, regardless of whether users are accessing their Office documents through the PC, phone, or browser.



Microsoft Mobile 2010
In the what's new video for Mobile 2010, Microsoft demonstrates Mobile document viewers. Viewers allow company's to render Office documents server side, allowing "just about" every smart phone on the market to view the documents without needing to download them. This includes iPhones and Blackberry's.
















Financial Times says it's real.
Looks like she got high on Office!
Web applications are useless if they works on specific browser(s) only.
(and yes, I apologize for bringing this up, but just thought it'd be a bit funny if it didn't work in Opera)
(and yes, I apologize for bringing this up, but just thought it'd be a bit funny if it didn't work in Opera)
Considering that Firefox has about 30% of the market I think it would be in Microsoft's best interest to make sure that it worked in both IE and Firefox. I mean they develop Office for Mac too.
EDIT:
Nevermind: Finished reading the blog...
Google Cache it -> http://74.125.153.132/search?hl=en&client=...%2F&btnG=Search
There are no longer videos however.
EDIT:
Nevermind: Finished reading the blog...
Google Cache it -> http://74.125.153.132/search?hl=en&client=...%2F&btnG=Search
There are no longer videos however.
Couldn't edit my own post.
Looks like it's been restored.
Mind you, that MS Mobile could make a pretty cool iPhone App, especially if it were to allow access to Office Live Workspace documents.
So you hope it can be used from your home computers which could easily have the actual app installed on them but not from your phone, a remote computer which doesn't allow software installations and any other place where you'd actually want to use this?
Google Docs for online (it does everything I need plus is tied in with my gmail)
and Office for offline (In fact in the last year I've dropped use of outlook and nearly all office apps, just dont need them much anymore)
This does look very promising.
If you find Google to be better for your needs than that is fine. Not everyone does. As a result, they will have an online offering for those who prefer to use Microsoft Office products.
I'll keep using my offline copy of Office though
hope they increase the capacity if so.
The only downside is that there is no check in and check out of files. So its possible to download 2 files and upload them at the same time causing confusion about revisions although not a problem if you are working on line but especially with the case as google spreadsheet its just no where near quick enough or powerfull enough for anything more than basics. Try using loads of hlookups and vlookups
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