Microsoft Offers Office Web App Experiment

Microsoft Offers Office Web App Experiment

Microsoft launched a preview of Microsoft Office Web applications, the first step on the long road from the general release of a web-based versions of Word, Excel and PowerPoint.

Now is the limited number of invitations to consumers to try out this application, which aims to compete with Google Apps and other online software. Invitation from the services of Windows Live SkyDrive.

Microsoft released a formal request for July at Worldwide Partner Conference in New Orleans. At that time, Microsoft said that this phase of the preview software for Anna in September, the beta phase at the end and beginning of 2010, normally used to.

"Preview at the beginning of the program aims to gather feedback from consumers of their official release. After this step, we (Microsoft) to extend Office Web applications, by providing a beta stage, and he officially Press the following year, and regularly work with the users of the service based on the answers," said Michael Schultz, Marketing Director of Microsoft's Office services, questions and answers from Microsoft's website.

Microsoft says customers can try out the beta version of this request microsoft.com / Office 2010.

OneNote not included in the preview of a Web App, which is available in the next step is for Microsoft. The next version is integrated with Microsoft Office 2010 software on desktop computers.

After officially released next year, the Office Web applications that are offered in three ways: the users of Windows Live, Microsoft Office 2010 users on the desktop and run the Microsoft Online Services.

Microsoft Office plans to create a Web-based applications available for PC and Mac and supports IE, Firefox and Safari.

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