Microsoft is dropping support for its Office apps on Chromebook in favour of the web versions of those apps. On the surface, it may sound like a bad change, but it seems to make a lot of sense for ...

Microsoft's Technical Preview of Web-based editions of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint shows that Google is in for a fight Microsoft unveiled the much anticipated Web-hosted versions of its Microsoft ...

The next version of Microsoft Office, code-named Office 14, will include lightweight but fully-functional versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote that can run in a browser. Called Office Web ...

While Google has beaten Microsoft to the Web productivity apps space, Microsoft's forthcoming Office Web Apps offer enterprises more deployment options Microsoft may have had its hand forced by ...

Microsoft is test driving a new version of its Office Web Apps suite, whose applications are hosted by the vendor and accessed by users via a web browser. Improvements in the suite, which includes ...

Microsoft today launched a limited beta test of its Office Web Apps, the company’s first public unveiling of its rival for Google’s Web applications. Dubbed a “technical preview” by Microsoft to ...

Microsoft Office Web Apps delivers lightweight versions of the company's Office applications via the web-based Windows Live service. The idea is to provide the familiar Office functionality and user ...

Microsoft has said that nearly 50 million people use Office Web Apps, but when I talk to non-techies they often don’t realize a free online version of Office even exists. That may change soon, as ...

Getting rid of pointless chrome is still awesome. More substantively, looks like a decent upgrade in functionality. It's nice to have web apps where you can be reasonably confident that the formatting ...

Stephen Elop, president of Microsoft Business Division, launches Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 in New York. Office 2010 marks a milestone in Microsoft’s efforts to keep up with an industry shift ...