We are excited to announce that today Office Web Apps are available on Windows Live. The initial release is available to Windows Live customers in the USA, Canada, Great Britain and Ireland with support for English, Spanish (USA) and French (Canada). More languages and locales will be added over the coming months. This release includes Word, PowerPoint, Excel and OneNote. The ability to edit Word documents and open OneNote notebooks is included. Not only do we want you to try these web apps, we also...

Earlier this year, we released some exciting new functionality that lets you extend your Excel skills to the web, by embedding an Excel spreadsheet on websites and blogs. This week, the Seattle Times is reporting the local 2011 primary election with the latest results displayed in an embedded Excel spreadsheet. As a team we are super-excited to see this feature in action! Seattle Times – Latest 2011 primary election results It’s easy to embed any Excel document in any web page or blog...

About a month ago I wrote about the Technical Preview on Windows Live. Since then we’ve seen a lot of interest in Office Web Apps and received numerous requests from people wanting to try them out. To make this possible, we are opening up the Technical Preview and inviting more people to try out the Office Web Apps. For a limited time, you can sign-up for a Technical Preview account here (if you are already a part of the technical preview, this link will generate an error): http://skydrive...

You can access and share Office documents with browser-based versions of Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and OneNote. Learn some of the basics and the latest features of these free tools. Watch the 30-second trailer below or click "read more" to view the entire webinar.

What you will learn at Tuesday's webinar

• Yes, Office Web Apps are different than Office 365
• Working on a doc with someone else at the same...

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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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We're all inclined to over share now and then. Did I really need to see that nineteenth picture of your cat, hear all of your cold symptoms, or endure you belting out Diana Ross songs at that karaoke bar? We understand that sometimes there's oversharing. But a lot of what you do every day depends on being able to get other people's input or show off a finished product. With the Office Web Apps, you have more choices for sharing Office documents without having to learn a new tool. When you just need...

Today is an exciting day for us! We are making available Excel, Word and PowerPoint Web Apps for a select group of Windows Live users as part of the Office Web Apps Technical Preview. While the initial functionality is modest it will expand over time. As we get closer to the release of Office 2010 we will make the Office Web Apps available to more Windows Live users. This early peek at the Office Web Apps will include high-fidelity viewing of Word, Excel and PowerPoint files in the browser. Invitees...

"Fashions fade, style is eternal." -Yves Saint Laurent As Yves Saint Laurent - renowned French fashion designer - once said, "Fashions fade, style is eternal." And isn't formatting your documents just another way to showcase your personal style? But when it comes to saving and sharing documents online, sometimes your style is, well, less than eternal. When you're on the go, there's nothing better than being able to store your documents online so you can access them when you need them, wherever you...

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...

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...