Office Web Apps: The Three Tenets

re: Office Web Apps: The Three Tenets

Darryl — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 18:11:22 GMT

With the existing Office product, Microsoft has designed the architecture so that it can be extended by third party (COM) addins. Will there be an architecture for extending Office Web Apps?

re: Office Web Apps: The Three Tenets

ray lee — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 18:10:44 GMT

Nick Simons, thank you! This solves all my doubt.

re: Office Web Apps: The Three Tenets

Nick Simons — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 18:10:07 GMT

We have a post planned for next week that will focus on our efforts to be compatible with the high-market-share browsers. This post will also talk about the role of Silverlight.

Word Web App and PowerPoint Web App both take advantage of Silverlight if it is installed. Silverlight enhances some features in these apps but it is not required to use the apps. Next week's post should provide more perspective on our approach.

re: Office Web Apps: The Three Tenets

ray lee — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 18:09:24 GMT

Nick Simons, I'm a silverlight rich client developer, that's why I'm very concerned with office web apps and silverlight. I believe your answer will give light to the new applications I'm developing.

So please answer, thank you.

re: Office Web Apps: The Three Tenets

ray lee — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 18:08:38 GMT

bambin0, you made a good statement here, but obviously not the right one.

nsimons, please answer my question, what's silverlight's role in future office web apps, this is what troubles me the most.

re: Office Web Apps: The Three Tenets

Nick Simons — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 18:08:17 GMT

You will be able to create documents from scratch using Office Web Apps. In version 1 you will not have access to all the features available in the rich client.

re: Office Web Apps: The Three Tenets

bambin0 — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 18:07:40 GMT

Thanks, this is a nice blog. I have to say that all this looks really nice. The reason I will never be using this is because of tenet 0 -- preserve the huge Office revenues at all costs. Not being able to create a document makes this pretty much a non-starter.

In a previous time, I had no choice but to spend $250 to start using a word processor. I believe that tenet 0 really shapes your product into something much more inferior than you can/should make it. That's unfortunate. The video took pains to make it sound natural that you don't want to create new docs, just edit existing ones.

re: Office Web Apps: The Three Tenets

ray lee — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 18:07:07 GMT

Nick Simons, thank you.

But I learned from many medias the office web apps is based on silverlight, are they all wrong?

what about office web apps for mobile devices? No silverlight required either?

re: Office Web Apps: The Three Tenets

Nick Simons — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 18:06:05 GMT

The only requirement is a supported browser. Silverlight is not required. Nor is any other add-in.

re: Office Web Apps: The Three Tenets

ray lee — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 18:05:41 GMT

nsimons, thank you for answering.

But my question isn't about browsers, it's about what else must be installed besides brower and silverlight.