Office Web Apps: Microsoft’s online office suite

Office Web Apps, the online office suite
In terms of online office suites, a lot of users are already used to Google’s excellent Google Documents. Since June 2010, and following a few updates which were recently applied, users now have access to a competing system which is free for personal use: Microsoft Office Web Applications. Microsoft’s suite allows you to work online either by yourself or on shared documents (collaborative work) with adapted versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote which can be accessed from any web browser.

25 GB of free storage space!
To be able to take advantage of the Office Web Apps services you will have to have a Windows Live ID, which is a Hotmail (160 million users in the world), Skydrive, Messenger or Xbox LIVE account. This means that by quickly creating an account you will have free access to 25 GB of online storage space. You will then be able to view, create and synchronise your documents in the DOCX format for Word, XLSX for Excel, PPTX with PowerPoint and ONE for OneNote...

Office Web Apps for Windows, MAC OS X and Linux
In this article, we will present Office Web Apps which works under the Windows, MAC OS X and Linux operating systems, while also demonstrating some of the functions which are now available like printing a Word document, the possibility of opening an Excel spreadsheet in your browser or on a mobile phone, and the insertion of clipart into documents, etc.