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

For the first post to the Office Web Apps blog (not counting the 'hello world' post we did on Monday!) I thought it would be appropriate to discuss the tenets that drive our design and engineering. These tenets reflect the fundamentals that we aim to achieve and should provide insight into the tradeoffs we make. Tenet #1: Trustworthy First and foremost we want to build web applications that users can trust. Many elements regarding trust are quite common amongst web applications. For example, most...

"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...

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...

Here is the recording from this week's free Office 15-Minute Webinar about using the Office Web Apps. You can join our webinars live at 9:15 am PDT. Click http://aka.ms/offweb for complete information.

1. What are the Office Web Apps and SkyDrive?
2. Opening, saving, and sharing documents
3. Why online docs are better
4. What cool things you...

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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...

As an engineer, I find myself frustrated with product blogs that spend all their time discussing the end-user experience while ignoring specific implementation details. For me, the most interesting classes in college were always the ones where guest lecturers would discuss specific challenges in developing their application, how difficulties were overcome, and why specific design decisions were made. With that in mind, I decided to talk a little about developing the Find feature in the Word Web App...

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

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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Today, Microsoft is announcing updates to our cloud offerings for productivity on Office 365 and on SkyDrive. Office Web Apps is an important part of Microsoft’s cloud productivity solutions, and as a team we’re excited to see the improvements being made on both platforms.

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