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Microsoft to Take Office to the Web (Now With Editing!)
AppScout —
Finally, Microsoft Office is heading to the Web.
Microsoft announced that a Web-based version of Microsoft Office Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote will be available to individuals through Office Live, a service that will be linked to the next version of Office. For the first time, users will be able to perform some editing functions within the Web versions, a capability that had been notably lacking in earlier versions.
Specifically, users will be able to "access, create, edit, share and collaborate" on documents, Microsoft said.
Although Microsoft began linking its operating systems to the Web ...
Microsoft Office Comes to the Browser (Finally)
ReadWriteWeb —
... (a separate Microsoft site where users can download templates) and an Office Live Workspace (for sharing office files between desktop and Web - ...
Cloudy Microsoft forecasts partly Office
jkOnTheRun —
... The online Office suite will be shown off later this year, so we should get a better idea within the next several weeks where this is all heading. I don't expect this to be completely free like Google Docs and Zoho are: Microsoft says that the web apps will be offered through Office Live, which is both add-supported and subscription based. Hop over to workspace.officelive.com and watch for more information as it becomes available. ...
Microsoft Plans to (Finally) Launch Web Office Suite
SitePoint —
... , where users can download templates for Microsoft Office products, there is Office Live Workspace, where users can store and share files, there is ...
PDC 2008: Look Out Google Docs, Here Comes MS Office for the Web
Webmonkey —
... Another interesting point: Microsoft has already released a beta of Office Live Workspaces, a collaborative online environment for sharing office docs and doing some lightweight editing. How will that offering differ from these web apps coming in Office 14? ...
Office In The Cloud
LiveSide - Windows Live news and interviews —
In all this excitement of PDC, cloud computing (Azure) and Live Mesh updates, there is one piece of cloud related news we haven’t told you about. Microsoft Office will also be moving towards the cloud! We already know about the web storage of Office documents through Office Live Workspace (save, access, and share) but that is going to be expanded with lightweight versions of Microsoft Office Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote. Powered by AJAX and/or Silverlight, they will be available for use in standard Web browsers such ad Internet Explorer, Firefox and Safari. Imagine being able to edit ...
Office Live Workspace Utilizes Silverlight For Multiple Document Uploading
LiveSide - Windows Live news and interviews —
Office Live Workspace got updated. More languages were added: Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Finnish, Czech, Turkish, Portuguese, and Greek. You can change your language with the language switcher at the bottom right of the page if you wish to do so. But that’s not all, they also introduce new features. One gets a particular mention on the Workspace Team Blog and that’s the use of Microsoft Silverlight to add multiple documents/files to your workspace:
The most notable one is a new way to add multiple documents to your workspace using Silverlight, which my good colleague ...
Office Live Workspace updates: Adds more languages, Silverlight for multiple document uploading, new version released
D' Technology Weblog —
Office Live Workspace is updated with more new languages: Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Finnish, Czech, Turkish, Portuguese, and Greek. You can change your language with the language switcher at the bottom right of the page if you wish to do so. And got the functionality to use of Microsoft Silverlight to add multiple documents/files to your workspace, and also got But that’s not all, they also introduce new features.
Get this functionality easily by downloading Silverlight, signing in to your workspace, and clicking Add ...
Microsoft Office Web Applications: Your Burning Questions Answered
LiveSide - Windows Live news and interviews —
... with Office Live Workspace and enables real-time collaboration. With Microsoft SharedView, you can share your desktop and edit documents with others in real time. While sharing your desktop, Microsoft SharedView, enables you to control who edits, makes comments, etc. and then save that document back to your Office Live Workspace.
For the full list please read Sarah's Q&A. Besides Sarah’s Q&A there’s also a FAQ about Office Live Workspace available at the Office Live Workspace website ...
Next Version of MS Office May Straddle Desktop and Cloud
Wired: Epicenter —
... As with any Microsoft software launch, there are a few points of pure mystery. For one, the company has already released a beta of Office Live Workspaces, a collaborative online environment for sharing office docs and doing some lightweight editing. How this offering will differ from Office 14's companion web apps is still up in the air. ...
Office Live Workspaces, Live Mesh and Windows Live Coming Together
Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life —
... to share with you some exciting news about Office Live: To simplify
and improve the customer experience around our Live services, we’ve made the decision
to converge Windows Live and Office Live into an integrated set of services at one
single destination. We think that just makes a ton of sense and goes a long way toward
giving you a simpler, richer, better service that allows you to do more with one account.
Every day, more and more people are signing up for Office
Live Workspace and Office
Live Small Business (4 ...
Google's Mythical GDrive Surfaces Once Again: Will It Bring Cloud Storage to the Mainstream?
ReadWriteWeb —
... for syncing and online storage, and Office Live Workspace for managing and storing office documents. And these are just Microsoft's consumer products in this space. ...
DocVerse: Microsoft Office Sharing and Collaboration (+Invites)
ReadWriteWeb —
... What's DocVerse?
DocVerse currently consists of a 1 MB Office 2007 plug-in that gives Microsoft's desktop software new collaboration and synchronization abilities. Once installed, every time you hit the "save" button in Office, a web version stored online is automatically updated, too. The web version also comes with a link you can share.
If that part sounds a lot like what's already available in Microsoft's Live Workspace, that's because it is. Like DocVerse, Live Workspace users can also install a plugin into Office ...
Office Live Workspace: New Features
LiveSide - Windows Live news and interviews —
Our friend PicturePan2, just pointed out some changes on Office Live workspace. First off he sees a new header that says Tech Preview: I’ve checked, but on mine it has the beta header (second image above). I wonder what’s up with that…doesn’t a technical preview go before a beta? Why would they go back to a technical preview? The new features, which the team announced, I do see: · Folders –To simplify organization, now you can use folders to manage files within workspaces. We know many of you were creating ...
Office Live Workspace Updated
Geek In Disguise —
... I’ve not looked at OLW for a while but it got some updates today that made me look again. For those late to the game OLW is free a web based collaboration tool from the Office team. From with Office applications you can save direct to your cloud based workspace and collaborate with others you invite. Check out ...
New Office Live Workspace Template For Travel
LiveSide - Windows Live news and interviews —
Always worried if you packed everything for your trip? Are the ones left behind fully informed? Office Live Workspace has a new template to help you with all this. To create, just sign in to your account and in the left panel, click New Workspace, and then click Travel Workspace. After you’ve done that you will see the following 4 documents are in there already: · Business Trip Itinerary – A form for all your trip details such as departure times, flight numbers etc. You will also find a handy schedule for the events and ...
Office Live Workspace Provides Resumé Help (For College Students) On Facebook
LiveSide - Windows Live news and interviews —
So you’ve graduated, or are close to graduating, and on your way of landing that first job. But to do so you need to write something lots of people dread: a resumé! To help you with that the Office Live Workspace team created an Office Live Workspace page on Facebook just for college students. I believe anybody who needs to write a resumé can profit from this though, and it’s not like you’ll be chucked off the page if you aren’t a student :P On this Facebook page you will find tips, advice, videos and more brought to you by resources like Monster.com and the Microsoft Office Online ...
Webware 100 Awards 2009 – And The Winners Are…
LiveSide - Windows Live news and interviews —
... - Microsoft Office Live Workspace is Microsoft's tool for sharing Office documents and mission critical files between multiple users. Workspace users can select privacy controls for each document and get the heads up when another user is editing it. If they want to work on a shared document at the same time, Live Workspace also taps into Microsoft's SharedView to enable screen sharing and overwriting protection - Site: Workspace.officelive.com ...
Office Live Workspace updated for Mac users
LiveSide - Windows Live news and interviews —
... (part of Document Collaboration Companion beta) was announced for users of Office 2008 for Mac SP2 to access Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents directly from Office Live Workspace. However, according to the link given it seems like it is currently in private beta, and will be available to the public sometime this year. Here’s an official list of features for Document Collaboration Companion: ...
Microsoft Releases Office 2008 Service Pack 2
TidBITS: Mac News for the Rest of Us —
... has released Office 2008 for Mac Service Pack 2 (12.2.0), adding various speed enhancements, bug fixes, and customer-requested features, along with a new collaboration application.
Microsoft Document Connection -- The most notable change the update brings is a new application called Microsoft Document Connection, which enables you to work more easily with shared files on a Microsoft SharePoint site (running on a Windows-based server) or Microsoft Office Live Workspace, which is a Web-based collaboration service.
It ...
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