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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Now you can share your documents so that others can edit them hassle-free, without signing in to a Microsoft account. This works for all four Office Web Apps: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote. Read on to start sharing now.

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I'm writing this blog post on SkyDrive. I'm not just doing this because I started at home and I'm finishing in the office. I'm doing this because the people on my team have strong opinions and I'm encouraged to listen. So I want to send this post to a group of people to get their feedback on what I've said here. Years ago I would have written this and sent it as an attachment in an email. But doing that now makes my life unnecessarily unpleasant. To start with, everyone may not be able to open the...

You can now sign up for a preview of the new Office Web Apps. These free versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote are being upgraded. We'll show you how to sign up and give you a tour of some of the new features. Plus we'll show you the new Outlook.com.

What you will learn at Tuesday's webinar:

• What are Office Web...

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On my last vacation I went back home to visit family. As anyone who works in technology can appreciate, I quickly became the designated tech support person. So I spent part of my vacation patching, installing software and fixing computers, while learning how each of my family’s computer setups differ. My mom runs Vista with IE 7, my brothers both use Macs and Safari (and wisely didn’t let me touch them), my dad runs Windows XP, and my in-laws run Vista with Firefox. This experience made...

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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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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Last Month, Nick wrote about the Office Web Apps team attending the SharePoint Conference to discuss Office Web Apps and how they can be deployed on SharePoint Foundation Server 2010. With the impending Beta release of both SharePoint and Office Web Apps for business customers, we thought that it would be a great time to discuss some of the content which we covered at the conference, on this blog. Specifically, we wanted to spend just a little time in this post discussing: How Office Web Apps work...

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...

Office Web Apps can be installed as part of a SharePoint deployment. Also, Office Web Apps will be available on Windows Live SkyDrive. One difference between Office Web Apps in these two environments is how you create new files. Creating Files on SkyDrive On SkyDrive you will be able to create a new document, workbook, presentation or OneNote notebook using the Office Web Apps. The UI looks like this… When you create a new file using this UI the file will open in the appropriate Office Web...