This is the first post in a weekly series from the Office Web Apps engineering team diving deeper into the next release of Office Web Apps. As Mike Morton mentioned a couple weeks ago in his new Office Web Apps blog post, improved authoring is one of the core scenarios for this release. In this post, Ken Yuhas, Program Manager, Office Web Applications, will explore these improvements and talk about how we built these features in the browser for the Word Web App. With over twenty years of development...

Watch this short video for a quick overview of what is new in the Office Web Apps, how the new Office Web Apps Server works, and enjoy demos along way!

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Check out Mike's entry on the Office Next blog talking about the new Office Web Apps and how to join the Office Web Apps Preview!

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Here is the recording from this week's free Office 15-Minute Webinar about using the Office Web Apps. You can join our webinars live at 9:15 am PDT. Click http://aka.ms/offweb for complete information.

1. What are the Office Web Apps and SkyDrive?
2. Opening, saving, and sharing documents
3. Why online docs are better
4. What cool things you...

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Today, the OneNote team announced an exciting new offering: OneNote Mobile for Android is now available in the Android Market app store!

OneNote mobile apps are available on a wide variety of platforms, including Windows Phone 7, iPhone, iPad, and now Android. They all work together with OneNote on your desktop and OneNote Web App in your browser.

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Today Guy Kawasaki shares his final blog post in a series about making your entrepreneurial dreams come true. His witty wrap up offers up what not to say and what not to believe that investors tell you. These tongue-in-cheek lists serve a purpose: they run down everything he taught you about creating a business pitch and plan, and developing a financial forecast. Reading all the posts should give you everything you need to launch that business! No more excuses! And don't forget - Office Web Apps are great tools for sharing and collaborating - perfect for entrepreneurs and their business partners when they set out.  

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It's habitual. You send out a document for feedback, and get back umpteen copies of the thing, each with a different set of comments. And, what if you want to share it with someone who doesn't have the same Office program as you? How will they open that Word, Excel, PowerPoint, or OneNote file?

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This year we brought Office Web Apps to the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) to show off our latest sharing and collaboration features.

At the Office booth, we're showing customers how to use OneNote Web App to create a shopping list, then share it with family members so they can view it on their Windows Phone or on another PC. (You might also have seen this on TV recently, in Microsoft's "Keep Shopping" TV commercial.)

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Who hasn't dreamed of quitting your desk job and starting your own business? It's a new year. Isn't it time to make your dreams reality?

Office Web Apps has partnered with author, venture capitalist, and tech influential @Guy Kawasaki to show you how to do just that. His exclusive posts will offer tips and templates to guide you through.

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The Excel team has released some new technology to allow developers to create mashups using Excel, powered by the Excel Web App.

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