Neowin News Feed for: Office web apps

Rumor: Is Google going to go after Microsoft's Office Web Apps?

John Callaham — Sun, 19 May 2013 09:31:19 +0100

A new rumor claims that Google plans to launch a version of its QuickOffice apps as a free browser service to take some of the market away from Microsoft's Office Web Apps. Read more...

OneNote Web App can now edit password protected sections

John Callaham — Wed, 15 May 2013 05:10:44 +0100

Microsoft has released an update for the OneNote Web App this week with a new feature that allows its users to view and edit any sections that are protected by passwords. Read more...

Microsoft adding more features to free Office Web Apps

John Callaham — Wed, 08 May 2013 02:48:11 +0100

Microsoft has announced plans to add more features to its free suite of Office Web Apps, including support for Android tablets, enabling real time co-authoring of documents and more. Read more...

Despite Microsoft's cloud push, some Office power users prefer offline software

John Callaham — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 16:03:24 +0000

Microsoft may want all of its Office users to move to the cloud-based Office 365 service, but there are still people who prefer to use Office applications as stand alone offline software. Read more...

Microsoft adds new features to Office Web Apps

John Callaham — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 12:22:50 +0000

Microsoft has added a number of new features to its free Office Web Apps this week, including the ablity to cut and paste images from the web into a document and more. Read more...

Microsoft SkyDrive now has 1 billion Office documents; new sharing features added

John Callaham — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 14:30:39 +0000

Microsoft has announced that its SkyDrive cloud service now stores over one billion Office documents. It has also added new sharing features for SkyDrive and Office web apps. Read more...

Office Web Apps touch-based viewing features explained

John Callaham — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 06:53:59 +0100

Microsoft explains in a new blog post how the new version of Office Web Apps will allow for better viewing of documents in a number of touch screen-based web browsers. Read more...

Microsoft on Windows 8 touch features in Office Web Apps

John Callaham — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 07:23:22 +0100

Microsoft has shared new information in a blog post on some of the touch-based features available in the new version of Office Web Apps, which can be used by Windows 8 owners. Read more...

Office Web Apps for SkyDrive now available to all

John Callaham — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 21:20:50 +0100

Microsoft has launched the Office Web Apps on SkyDrive, allowing people with a SkyDrive cloud account to access Office documents with any device that features a web browser. Read more...

Report: Microsoft Office Starter 2010 being phased out

John Callaham — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 00:01:47 +0100

Microsoft has begun to phase out the availability of Microsoft Office Starter 2010 to OEM partners, with the replacement being the Office Web Apps suite of programs. Read more...

Office Web Apps getting a redesign, Office gets a new logo

Anthony Tosie — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 17:13:18 +0100

As with Microsoft's upcoming Office 15, the company's web apps for the Office service will be getting a design overhaul. In addition to the overhaul, Microsoft has created a new logo for Office. Read more...

Microsoft updates Office Web Apps, adds co-authoring to Word

Brad Sams — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 18:10:30 +0100

Microsoft’s Office Apps have received another update based on user feedback. The popular online productivity suite has already exploded in popularity with Microsoft stating that 50 million people use Office Web Apps on SkyDrive and... Read more...

Office Web Apps update adds more functionality

Brad Sams — Thu, 12 May 2011 19:01:04 +0100

Anyone keeping up with Microsoft Office news knows about Office Web Apps. With Office 2010, Microsoft has delivered the world a free version of its world dominating office productivity suite via the web browser. Unlike... Read more...

Microsoft Office web apps surpasses 20 million users

Andrew Lyle — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 00:19:37 +0100

Earlier this week, Microsoft announced that they have surpassed 20 million users on their Office Web Apps. Microsoft released their web apps in the summer, which included Word, Excel and PowerPoint. Microsoft was largely unchallenged in... Read more...

Office Web Apps to have version support

Benjamin Rubenstein — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 16:28:02 +0100

LiveSide.net has made a post regarding the functionality of Microsoft's upcoming cloud based version of Office. Not only will the current Office Live Workspace, which can be accessed at http://office.live.com, be completely replaced by Web... Read more...