When we shipped Office Web Apps in June, we set out to make the Office experience more accessible so you could work from anywhere and share with anyone. We love to get input from the people who use Office Web Apps. That feedback helps us decide what features we offer next and when we make those features available. The latest updates to Office Web Apps add some much requested functionality to Word Web App, Excel Web App and PowerPoint Web App. Here's what we added... Word Printing One of the top requests...

Roxanne Kenison is a writer on Office.com who writes primarily about Office Web Apps and Office Starter. She posted about her own experiences with Excel Web App. The post is over on the Excel 2010 blog . Enjoy! Nick Simons Program Manager, Office Web Apps

Office 2010 goes public today! A lot of the work we did in Office Web Apps is a part of the Office 2010 release and we are really excited. Last year I wrote about some of the ways Office Web Apps and Office 2010 complement each other. When we announced our browser support we heard from many of you that we left out Chrome. A big part of supporting a browser is spending the time to properly test our apps in that browser and then fixing any issues we encounter. We’re pleased to announce that we’ve...

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...

Last week I spent half an hour being interviewed for a podcast called RunAsRadio . The entire 36 minutes is now available. The first few minutes were spent talking about Clippy (the old Office animated paper clip) but eventually we actually covered Office Web Apps. I recall that we talked about what a Program Manager actually does, availability, multi-user authoring and security. Here’s the link . Nick Simons Program Manager, Office Web Apps

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...

We’ve launched a portal on TechNet to help IT professionals get started with the Office Web Apps. This should prove particularly useful for people who are currently trying out the beta . Nick Simons Program Manager, Office Web Apps

One of my core responsibilities during the development of Office Web Apps has been to ensure that the apps are accessible to people with disabilities. Given that the Office Web Apps are web versions of productivity tools our primary focus is on supporting people who are blind, people with reduced vision, and people with limited mobility. There are a lot of regulations (such as Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act) and guidelines that pertain to making both software and web sites accessible. These...

When I talk to customers, they frequently ask, "If I have Office [the desktop apps], then why would I use the Office Web Apps?" It’s a fair question. Office is an extremely powerful and efficient set of productivity tools. I use Office every day. But the Office Web Apps have changed the way I think about content and how I use the Office desktop apps. In the past I have always stored my files locally. Even when documents needed to be stored in a shared location, I kept local versions of my files...

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...