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• New Year's Resolution: Cure for Attachment Disorder

  18 Jan 2012

  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? If you...
• Get Guy Kawasaki's tips on starting a business

  9 Jan 2012

  Who hasn't dreamed of quitting your desk job and starting your own business? It's a new year. Isn't it time to make your dreams reality? Office Web Apps has partnered with author, venture capitalist, and tech influential @Guy Kawasaki to show you how to do just that. His exclusive posts will offer tips...
• 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...
• You asked, we delivered: new Web App features now available

  29 Sep 2011

  On the Office Web Apps team, we are committed to improving our products based on your feedback. Since we launched the Web Apps just over a year ago, we’ve been listening to you, and today we’re releasing new features based on what we’ve heard. To everybody who has shared their opinion...
• 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...
• Chrome, Hotmail, and Office 2010

  15 Jun 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

  7 Jun 2010

  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

  24 Mar 2010

  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...
• Office Web Apps Accessibility

  18 Jan 2010

  One of my core responsibilities during the development of Office Web Apps has been to ensure that the apps are accessible to people with disabilities. Given that the Office Web Apps are web versions of productivity tools our primary focus is on supporting people who are blind, people with reduced vision...
• A Perfect Match: Office Web Apps and the Office Desktop Clients

  11 Dec 2009

  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...
• Deploying Office Web Apps in the Enterprise

  18 Nov 2009

  Last Month, Nick wrote about the Office Web Apps team attending the SharePoint Conference to discuss Office Web Apps and how they can be deployed on SharePoint Foundation Server 2010. With the impending Beta release of both SharePoint and Office Web Apps for business customers, we thought that it would...
• Office Web Apps Technical Preview Expanding

  20 Oct 2009

  About a month ago I wrote about the Technical Preview on Windows Live. Since then we’ve seen a lot of interest in Office Web Apps and received numerous requests from people wanting to try them out. To make this possible, we are opening up the Technical Preview and inviting more people to try out...
• Office Web Apps in Vegas

  17 Oct 2009

  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...
• Office Web Apps Go to School

  8 Oct 2009

  Last Friday three members of the Office Web Apps team paid a visit to a class at the University of Washington here in Seattle. My role was to give a PowerPoint presentation and demo. All I took with me was a netbook. It didn’t have Office installed on it. The purpose of our visit was to launch...
• The Office Web Apps Are in the Movies

  3 Sep 2009

  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

  27 Aug 2009

  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...
• The Office Web Apps Love Your Browser

  5 Aug 2009

  On my last vacation I went back home to visit family. As anyone who works in technology can appreciate, I quickly became the designated tech support person. So I spent part of my vacation patching, installing software and fixing computers, while learning how each of my family’s computer setups...
• Viewing is cool too

  28 Jul 2009

  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

  17 Jul 2009

  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...