Next Microsoft Office Will Have Browser-Based Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
Next Microsoft Office Will Have Browser-Based Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
Posted 10/28/2008 at 11:16am
| by Alex Castle
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In another bit of cloud-computing-related news out of Microsoft’s PDC, the Redmond giant has announced that the next generation Office suite will include browser based versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote. The apps won’t be fully-featured, but they will be competitive with Google’s online office offerings, according to Microsoft.
The online Office apps will be called “Office Web Applications,” and will be available in ad-supported and subscription-based flavors over Office Live. It looks like the apps will work with IE, Firefox, and Safari. Support for Google’s browser has yet to be confirmed.
It’s shaping up to be a big couple of days for cloud computing. We can expect to hear a lot more from Microsoft during the rest of the PDC about what this technology’s going to look like in the future.
What are you the most excited about? Hit the jump and let us know.
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Shalbatana
October 29, 2008 at 6:56am
What this will bring is the ability to successfully share docs in all places. Can't tell you how many times I made a doc with excel just to find it won't open on someone else's machine because they have an earlier version that doesn't support something I used.
Still, If Office maintains it's "new" look that it implemented in the last release, I'll probably go full time with Open office. It's ready now, and has all the advanced features I need.
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xs0u1x
October 28, 2008 at 11:42am
can somebody tell me exactly how the hell this is usefull to any of us? i mean yeah......you dont have to alt tab to search the net......but really....unless im missing something here
Peanut Fox
October 28, 2008 at 12:11pm
Well, you don't gain any functionality at all, in fact you lose it. But you do gain the ability to access and share your documents across the web without having to have acess to a spacific server or pc unto which the documents are stored on. It also gives Microsoft the abilty to share or allow access to these applications to someone using an ultra low end computer like a smart phone.
xs0u1x
October 28, 2008 at 12:16pm
oh well that does make sense. thank you. but that does make it alil less secure wouldnt you say?
horzo
October 28, 2008 at 3:53pm
Yes, but don't worry. Google and Microsoft will secure your documents for you. Nothing to worry about...har har. If I ran a corporate IT shop, I wouldn't touch this with a 10 ft. pole.
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