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  • Plan, pitch, forecast, fund: how to start a business

    Today Guy Kawasaki shares his final blog post in a series about making your entrepreneurial dreams come true. His witty wrap up offers up what not to say and what not to believe that investors tell you. These tongue-in-cheek lists serve a purpose: they run down everything he taught you about creating...
  • Chrome, Hotmail, and Office 2010

    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...
  • Office Web Apps Now Available on Windows Live

    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...
  • Using Office Web Apps to Create New Files

    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...
  • A Perfect Match: Office Web Apps and the Office Desktop Clients

    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...
  • Office Web Apps in Vegas

    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...
  • The Office Web Apps Are in the Movies

    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
  • Continuity and change: proofing tools in the Office Web Apps

    One of the interesting things about working on the Office Web Apps team is that we experience a recurring tension between the requirements of the past, present and future. For example, our mission demands that we interoperate with existing desktop apps, leverage present browser technology, and prepare...
  • Viewing is cool too

    When I talk to people about how Office Web Apps provide “browser-based viewing and editing” of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote files, the thing people immediately get excited about is the “editing” part. That’s understandable: browser-based editing is new for Office...
  • Office Web Apps: The Three Tenets

    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...