Office Web Apps

download free anti virus The Microsoft Office Web Apps suite was switched on quietly by Microsoft on June 7th 2010.
Users can access the Office Web Apps from Office.live.com. They are immediately available to everyone in the U.S., UK, Canada and Ireland. Those outside the initial launch countries can get access to the final versions by going to the same web site. Microsoft launched the paid SharePoint-dependent version of Office Web Apps for business customers in early May.

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Office Web Apps are Microsoft's answer to Google's popular Docs. Office Web Apps are free web-based versions of four components of Microsoft Office. Office Web Apps allow the user to view, edit, and share Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, and Microsoft OneNote documents directly in the web browser. Users can share files and collaborate with others online. Supported web browsers include Internet Explorer (7 and later) Firefox (3.5 and later) and Safari (4 and later).
Office Web Apps replace Office Live Workspace, Microsoft's service for storing and sharing documents online.

Home and school users are able to access Office Web Apps through Windows Live SkyDrive. For businesses and corporations that wish to host their own Office Web Apps privately, Microsoft offers paid SharePoint versions of the online suite.

Word Web App	PowerPoint Web App	Four applications are included in the Microsoft Web Apps suite: Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote. Office online is clearly designed to work in tight conjunction with Office. In the Word web app, for example, only light editing is possible - unlike the fully featured editing capabilities of Google Docs. Online, the fidelity of layout edits is not great; however, when converted back to Word the documents look fine. The principal benefit of Microsoft's Web apps is that they don't break Office formatting. Whatever changes are made to a file on the Web, there are no surprises with the results when the file is brought back to the desktop. Given the formatting issues that often arise with Office docs in other web apps, this is a great advantage.

Excel Web App	OneNote Web App

For a more detailed look, go to Office-WebApps.com :

Word Web Apps overview | Powerpoint Web Apps overview

Excel Web Apps overview | OneNote Web Apps overview

Office Web Apps
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Stephen Elop, president of the Microsoft Business Division, reveals features of Office Web Apps at the WPC 2009

Microsoft Office 2010 and Web Apps
Microsoft Office 2010 is not required to work with Office Web Apps, as any version of Office is compatible. However, to make the most of the online editing and file sharing capabilities it is advisable to install Office 2010: Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote 2010 all include commands for saving files directly to SharePoint and Windows Live.
There is no need to download a viewer; Office Web Apps are displayed directly in the browser. A document that is open in an Office Web App can be opened in your installed Office program simply by clicking Open in the file menu. After editing, clicking Save in Office will save the file online.

To begin using Office Web Apps, you log in to SkyDrive using your Windows Live ID. SkyDrive, Microsoft's free storage in the cloud, provides the backbone for much of the Office Web Apps functionality.