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...

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

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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This year we brought Office Web Apps to the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) to show off our latest sharing and collaboration features.

At the Office booth, we're showing customers how to use OneNote Web App to create a shopping list, then share it with family members so they can view it on their Windows Phone or on another PC. (You might also have seen this on TV recently, in Microsoft's "Keep Shopping" TV commercial.)

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It's habitual. You send out a document for feedback, and get back umpteen copies of the thing, each with a different set of comments. And, what if you want to share it with someone who doesn't have the same Office program as you? How will they open that Word, Excel, PowerPoint, or OneNote file?

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We have a post on TechNet discussing our new on-premises solution for organizations that want to host Office Web Apps on their own networks. If you feel like reading a more technical discussion of our new server offering, check out Introducing Office Web Apps Server . Nick Simons Senior Program Manager - Office Web Apps

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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Take a look at the new Garage Series episode where hosts Jeremy Chapman and Amanda Lefebvre take a pre-release, first look at the upcoming Office experiences on the Web. They will walk you through real-time co-authoring beyond pure text editing across Word, PowerPoint and at a cell level in Excel, as well as net new capabilities previously only available on the desktop. Watch too as they challenge a local New Orleans band, Remedy Krewe, to compose a blues song real-time as they work together both online and offline.

Get the full story on the Office 365 technology blog

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Watch this short video for a quick overview of what is new in the Office Web Apps, how the new Office Web Apps Server works, and enjoy demos along way!

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If you’re at the SharePoint Conference in Vegas this week, come see us. Mike Morton, the Group Program Manager of the Office Web Apps team is speaking at 1:15 pm on Tuesday, October 20. The session is called “Understanding the Office Web apps and Office 2010.” If you are looking for more technical information, Franklin Williams will be talking about “Office Web apps: Deployment and Manageability” at 4:30 pm that same day. We are also running a discussion group on Wednesday...