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Microsoft to ‘webify’ Office (sort of)
blogs.zdnet.com - 10/28/2008
Microsoft to ‘webify’ Office (sort of)
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Microsoft is finally doing what many have been clamoring for -- making Web-based versions of its Office apps available -- but in a different way than expected.
Microsoft to Extend Office to the Browser: Q&A: Microsoft Senior Vice President Chris Capossela discusses how extending Office applications to the browser will increase choice and flexibility for customers.
microsoft.com - 10/28/2008
Microsoft to Extend Office to the Browser: Q&A: Microsoft Senior Vice President Chris ...
— microsoft.com — Q&A: Microsoft Senior Vice President Chris Capossela discusses how extending Office applications to the browser will increase... choice and flexibility for customers. LOS ANGELES, Oct. 28, 2008 — As part of a strategic companywide shift toward embracing ... (more) Microsoft to Extend Office to the Browser: Q&A: ...

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Microsoft Office Comes to the Browser (Finally)
readwriteweb.com - 10/28/2008
Microsoft Office Comes to the Browser (Finally)
— readwriteweb.com — Microsoft announced this morning at its PDC conference that the next release of Microsoft Office will include... browser-based versions of some of its main office software products - Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote. These will be "lightweight ... (more) Microsoft Office Comes to the Browser (Finally)

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Office Online Home Page - Microsoft Office Online
office.microsoft.com - 10/28/2008
Office Online Home Page - Microsoft Office Online
— office.microsoft.com — Click here to switch to other Office Online sites worldwide United States ( change ) | All... Microsoft Sites Microsoft Office Online Sign in to My Office Online ( What's this? ) | Sign in Home Products Help and How-to Downloads Clip Art Templates ... (more) Office Online Home Page - Microsoft Office Online

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Technologizer:  Microsoft Finally Puts Office on the Web

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Microsoft Finally Puts Office on the Web
Technologizer — ... The new web applications would be available through the Office Live product, which makes a lot of sense (and leads one to ask why this wasn’t done in the first place). No release date has been given, although it is expected to be available as a private technology preview later this year. Final release is expected upon the launch of the “next version of Office,” according to press materials. Mary Jo Foley suggests this launch date may be either late 2009 or early 2010 according to her post on today’s news. Caposella had this to say about the company’s strategy: We are deeply ...

Windows in the Cloud
Know It All — ... : "For most users this will be more than enough to make the expensive, downloaded version irrelevant. Power users who need advanced features will still buy Office, but that's a tiny percentage of the overall market." Mary Jo says details of the offering are still a little, um, cloudy. ...

Does a Web Office hurt Google or MSFT?
mathewingram.com/work — ... I would imagine that Microsoft is going to try its best to make Web Office just useful enough to entice people away from Google, but not nearly nice enough to tempt them to drop the regular installed version of Office. But no matter how hard it tries, there are likely to be small or medium-sized companies that decide it’s just as good to use the Web version as it is to pay $300 or whatever per seat to get an authorized copy of the desktop software. That’s going to be money right out of Microsoft’s pocket, since Office generates ...

Microsoft Hopes to Build a Complementary Revenue Stream with its Online Office Suit
Profy — ... of the Microsoft office suit to the browser in the next release (but there’s no official release date for Office 14 for now but I tend to believe Mary Jo Foley that late 2009 or even some time in 2010 is quite realistic). ...

Microsoft Office is Going Online. Now What?
Technologizer — ... more features than Google’s offering. And the apps that Microsoft showed at PDC looked fancier than Google Apps, at least. Will Google ramp up its efforts more quickly than it would have? Will it intentionally keep things simple on the theory that more features don’t necessarily make for a better online suite? Will it turn out that it’s not all that serious about the Web suite business? I dunno, but it’ll be fascinating to find out. When will all this happen? ZDNet’s Mary Jo Foley thinks that Office 14 may not ship until 2010 . Web-based office productivity will have ...

Survey: a new name for Office Web Apps, coming soon?
LiveSide - Windows Live news and interviews — ... - “Microsoft Security Essentials”, and we’re really beginning to like this new pipeline of information.  In a new survey, Microsoft asks about possible new names for a “suite of paid, web-based services… that will complement Microsoft Office”.  Microsoft “Office Web Applications”, lightweight versions of Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and OneNote, were first demoed last October at PDC.  While the professional version will be a paid service, a consumer version is expected to be ad funded and free. ...

Microsoft to deliver invitation-only tech preview build of Office 2010
Bink.nu — ... Microsoft also is making available to select testers this week invitation-only tech previews of Visio 2010, Project 2010 and SharePoint Server 2010, officials said. The tech preview of the Office Web Apps –the Webified versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote — is slated to be available to select testers some time in August, not this week. ...

No Microsoft Office Web Apps test build in August, after all
Bink.nu — ... But officials told me they’re close to delivering the promised Technical Preview test build of the four Webified Office apps that the company first demonstrated publicly last fall. A company spokesperson provided the following statement when I asked about the Web Apps’ whereabouts yesterday: ...

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