Sean Lyndersay, Lead Program Manager on the PowerPoint Web App team, has just put up a post that talks about some of the high level considerations of creating a web-based version of PowerPoint. The post links back to this blog at one point so if you find yourself back here, be careful to avoid getting into an infinite loop. Sean's post is here: http://blogs.msdn.com/powerpoint/archive/2009/07/24/bringing-powerpoint-to-the-web.aspx Nick Simons Program Manager, Office Web Apps

Terry Crowley is featured in “ The Making of the Office Web Applications. ” Terry talks about shipping a new version of Office for about the first minute. After that, he focuses on the Office Web Apps. Five minutes well spent! Nick Simons Program Manager, Office Web Apps

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...

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...