Seen any great examples of stuff on blogs lately? You know, stuff. Family photos, product lists, sports scores. Lots of blogs and sites are posting links to photos, or documents to download, which works OK. Some are posting links to online documents, which is a little easier to view. But we think there's a better solution for the stuff you want to showcase on your blog or website. Have you seen blog posts with information that look like this? (Click to filter the types of coffee beans just as you...

On February 1 we said that the Office Web Apps (on Windows Live SkyDrive and Hotmail) would be available worldwide in March, and they have arrived! The Office Web Apps are now live in 18 new countries in Central and South America, including Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Uruguay, and Venezuela. Last but certainly not least, rollout to Central and South America marks...

As promised , we’ve been busting our tails to make the Office Web Apps on Windows Live available worldwide and we’re nearly there. Starting today, people in over 150 more countries can use the Web Apps to view, edit, and share Office documents from anywhere with a browser and an internet connection. This includes viewing, editing, and sharing Office document attachments in Hotmail . The 150 new locations include India, Indonesia, Israel, Malaysia, Mexico, Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Singapore...

Today the home page at http://www.office.com features a much richer way to preview templates than the wee thumbnails the site traditionally offers. Click a template, and it opens read-only in your browser, where you can see it full-size, exactly as it was formatted in the Office program where it was created. For Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, if you want to use the template, click Download to store it on your computer, where you can open it in your desktop Office program (the OneNote templates include...

I’m writing this blog post immediately after watching Microsoft’s CEO, Steve Ballmer, give his 2011 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) keynote . I couldn’t help be amazed after hearing him exclaim: “Hotmail, which is the #1 email service worldwide, deeply integrating Microsoft Office - took major steps forward. In the first hundred days, we drove over 20 million people to use our Office Web Applications through Hotmail.” This got me to think about how far the Office Web...

Today the Office Web Apps (on Windows Live SkyDrive and Hotmail) became available in 15 new countries including China, Denmark, Finland, Hong Kong, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, and Turkey. These additions bring the total number of countries to 26 – making the Web Apps available to more than 1/3 of all earthlings. Australia Austria Belgium Canada China (new) Denmark (new) Finland (new) France Germany Hong Kong (new) Ireland Italy...

Check out this post on the Office Blog ... "Facebook's new messaging platform integrates the Office Web Apps to enable Facebook users to view Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents with just one click." Office + Facebook = Easily share your ideas and documents with friends Nick Simons Program Manager, Office Web Apps

We're always excited to see new ways people are using Office Web Apps to share documents. A few weeks ago, Microsoft released its 2010 Annual Report and, for the first time, anyone can view it directly in their web browser using Word Web App (or download it to their desktop if they prefer). Now investors can read the 10-K, letter to shareholders, or annual report, even if they're at a computer that doesn't have Office installed.And, thanks to the high-fidelity viewing experience in Office Web Apps...

On SkyDrive we just enabled the ability for you to embed Excel content and PowerPoint presentations in websites such as your blog. For details on how to do this check out the blog post dedicated to Excel and the blog post dedicated to PowerPoint . Here is an example of an embedded PowerPoint presentation from my own SkyDrive: Here's an example of an embedded Body Mass Index (BMI) calculator, using the Excel Web App also posted on the Office blog . Enter your own height and weight to find out your...

On the Office blog we announced some significant milestones and highlighted the new functionality we have introduced over the last few weeks... In just over 100 days since we launched, more than 20 million people have used Office Web Apps to view, edit, and share Office documents from anywhere with a browser and an internet connection. Today we're releasing more new features—based on your feedback (more than 25,000 comments so far)—and we're making Office Web Apps available in 7 more...