JavaScript isn't replacing Office macros anytime soon, but the Office Web apps (and the SharePoint-based enterprise equivalents) are improving regularly. For users that means simple but useful ...

Collaboration has always been a big problem with desktop productivity tools. We've spent the last decade or more emailing documents to colleagues, wasting time as we wait to receive content and edits.

This morning, Microsoft opened the tech preview of its long-anticipated Office Web Apps. Here’s a first look at what the online version of Excel has in store. From the online SkyDrive folders, you can ...

Earlier this morning Microsoft gave us a heads up on some new features it is adding to its free Office Web Apps, including real time co-authoring with all three apps. As it turns out, that's just the ...

Windows Live interface is inundating and boring. No paragraph indents in Word (yet). With Office 2010, Microsoft has taken an important (and inevitable) step into internet-stored media. That's right; ...

Microsoft Office Web Apps today entered Technical Preview status. A limited number of invitation-only participants are getting access to Web versions of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, in English and ...

Microsoft has announced the release of the newest Office Web Apps, which are now available via SkyDrive. Until now, the Office 2013-ish apps have been in preview mode since July, with 750,000 testers ...

Microsoft Corp. on Thursday launched the first public preview of its long-awaited online version of Office, dubbed — drum roll, please — Office Web Apps. But the so-called Technical Preview — ...

Illustration: Keith Negley Everyone is still reeling from the recession, and cash is tight–not, perhaps, the best time for Microsoft to launch a new version of its ubiquitous Office productivity suite ...