The Office Web Apps Love Your Browser

re: The Office Web Apps Love Your Browser

David ADC — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 03:43:53 GMT

Office Web Apps Word defintely does NOT work with IE7 and XP (which I am forced into using at work). I lose any changes I make after clicking on the save button. It works find with IE8 and Windows 7 (which I have at home).

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md — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 03:43:31 GMT

As of now (2:34 PM, 03/nov/2010), webapps seems to work fine in Opera 10.6!!

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JK — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 03:43:10 GMT

Hi,

I've not used Google Docs extensively but could easily see that it doesn't even remotely stack up against Office except that it's web-based... If the Office Web Apps experience is anything like the desktop Office suite, I don't even doubt its success in the business market as well as 'smarter' individuals noticing the potential and embracing the effort Microsoft has invested in this project. I'm looking forward to the OneNote Web App in particular.

It's a pity that Opera has been excluded rather than Firefox. I don't like Firefox at all, it just feels tacky to me, but unfortunately there's a lot of people using it so it makes sense supporting it for initial rollout. From a market-share viewpoint, it makes absolutely NO sense in rolling out support for Google Chrome at this stage because Chrome is a Google product and it would be easier to sway people using other browsers / platforms rather than the direct competition's product(s). How people can not see this logic, blows my mind away...

@ the people who are ranting about this product, nobody is forcing you to use a particular browser or Office Web Apps for that matter. If you want to use an unsupported browser and / or are happy to use Google Apps, don't even look at Office Web Apps... BTW, Silverlight installation is optional and only enhances the user experience!

Microsoft has a great set of free software / solutions with awesome online solutions that integrate nicely with each other e.g. Windows Live Mail, Workspace, SkyDrive, SharedView etc. People can not say that Microsoft is only out to make a quick buck, I think it's even safe to say that Microsoft isn't even too concerned to make money out of the individual anymore, large organizations is where the money's at.

Regards,

re: The Office Web Apps Love Your Browser

Jaimee — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 03:42:40 GMT

I'm a student. I know many of my peers use Google Apps but quite frankly it is junk. With my discount I'd gladly pay for Office. I'm quite surprised actually than anyone would even consider using in in the first place, free or not. My classmates and I are beginning to use Web Apps on our skydrives. We love it and there are MAC and PC users working together nicely.

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Kyle — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 03:40:53 GMT

no chrome?? meh. if i know google they will get right to work making sure chrome matches up. probably because they care about users more than money

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Tim Acheson — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 03:40:32 GMT

Anybody can start using MS Office Web Apps, right now! Web-based MS Office, and it's FREE! To activate MS Office Web Apps just download Office 2010 Beta, and save a file to SkyDrive.

For full details follow the link in my last comment at the end of this page:-

http://bit.ly/4rvp0B

I love it. Very cool stuff, like seeing MS PowerPoint presentations complete with animations in a web browser, and using Excel on a mobile.

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cepgo — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 03:40:12 GMT

Love My Browser - Opera=Love My Office - Open Office.

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Antonia Antonina — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 03:39:43 GMT

Your statement " [While] we cannot officially support all browsers ..." is misleading in implying that technical difficulties surrounding non-officially-supported browsers are the reasons why they don't work. I reject that implication. It is just more of Microsoft, a continuation of "Windows ain't done 'till Lotus won't run" philisophy.

Some things never change. You know that if you keep piling in proprietary extensions - preferably patented ones, that you win the war for market share.

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Anonymous — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 03:39:17 GMT

@alienRancher: Silverlight v1 and 2 had been out and officially released (not in beta) for quite some time prior to that. It's _much_ easier to support an incremental update than it is an entirely new product--there are far fewer new bits and moving parts.

And once again, just to be clear, and I'm going only off of the words from the Office Web Apps team that they posted here, Silverlight will _not_ be required and is _not_ an integral part of the experience. Period. It may be in the future, who knows, but that's speculation, not fact.

I think it'd serve everyone if people started reading the posts and comments before replying themselves. It helps prevent FUD and the spread of misinformation.

re: The Office Web Apps Love Your Browser

Bashar Kokash — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 03:38:51 GMT

@alienRancher what he meant that Microsoft started developing Office web before final version of Chrome was released.