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• Office Web Viewer: View Office documents in a browser

  10 Apr 2013

  Do you have Office documents on your website or blog that you want your readers to view even if they don't have Office installed? Would you rather view a document before downloading it? To give your audience a better experience, try the Office Web Viewer. What is the Office Web Viewer? It's a service...
• 4 new ways to edit Office documents in your browser

  21 Feb 2013

  If you've been using Office Web Apps for a while, you know that we continually make improvements to them, even since our big update last October . And now that you don't have to sign in , you can try out the 4 latest updates right here, right now. Copy and paste pictures from the web Find a picture on...
• Sign-in no longer required to edit Office docs in SkyDrive

  8 Feb 2013

  Now you can share your documents so that others can edit them hassle-free, without signing in to a Microsoft account. This works for all four Office Web Apps: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote. To share your document this way, you just need to get a link and send it: 1. In your SkyDrive, right-click...
• New Office Web Apps, now live on SkyDrive

  22 Oct 2012

  The new Office Web Apps are now live! Thanks to all 750,000 of you who have helped put the Office Web Apps Preview through its paces since it went live in July. This scale of use and thousands of pieces of feedback prior to general availability has helped us tweak and improve the quality of the latest...
• Bringing touch editing to Office Web Apps on Windows 8 and iOS tablets

  20 Aug 2012

  We introduced the new Office Web Apps a few weeks ago. We've added new features, improved the performance of our apps and continue to provide access to your documents anywhere in a variety of popular browsers. Today, we are excited to introduce you to a new dimension for input - Touch - to bring the...
• Building Advanced Editing in Word Web App

  2 Aug 2012

  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...
• Video: The new Office Web Apps - Overview and Demos

  2 Aug 2012

  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! < What is new in the Office Web Apps Demo of Word Web App and PowerPoint Web App Demo of co-authoring between PowerPoint Web App and PowerPoint 2013...
• New SkyDrive updates make sharing Office docs easier

  29 Nov 2011

  Today's post is by Jenni French, product manager on the Office Web Apps team. Earlier this autumn, we shipped enhancements to Office Web Apps based on your feedback , delivering new features such as the ability to view ink in OneNote Web App, merge and autofit cells in Excel Web App, and print directly...
• Setting the pace in cloud productivity

  29 Nov 2011

  Today's post is by Jenni French, product manager on the Office Web Apps team. 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...
• Now available: Co-author documents in the Word Web App

  7 Jul 2011

  Nearly 50 million people worldwide are using the Office Web Apps on SkyDrive and Hotmail. As we've mentioned on this blog before, we’re always listening to your suggestions about how to improve the Office Web Apps experience. Today, we’re thrilled to announce another new feature based on...
• Using Office Web Apps for the MSFT 2010 Annual Report

  19 Oct 2010

  We're always excited to see new ways people are using Office Web Apps to share documents. A few weeks ago, Microsoft released its 2010 Annual Report and, for the first time, anyone can view it directly in their web browser using Word Web App (or download it to their desktop if they prefer). Now investors...
• Clip Art, Charts, Themes and Printing - Need We Say More?

  23 Aug 2010

  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...
• Under the Hood: Find in the Word Web App Viewer

  22 Sep 2009

  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...