Ooh. Have you heard? Microsoft Online Services Suite customers are gonna be getting not only Exchange Online, Sharepoint Online, Office Communications Online, and LiveMeeting… but also OFFICE WEB APPS. Yup. For those who don’t know, that includes:
- Word Web App
- Excel Web App
- PowerPoint Web App
- OneNote Web App
Microsoft: Office Web Apps coming to its hosted business suite
By Juan Carlos PerezOctober 4, 2010 03:21 PM ET
Microsoft has definite plans to add Office Web Apps to its hosted Business Productivity Online Standard Suite (BPOS), but the company isn’t providing a specific timetable for the integration.
Without those applications, BPOS continues to trail other rivals, namely Google Apps, which offer office productivity applications as a default component of their broader cloud-based collaboration and communication suites.
"We’ll certainly be talking a lot more about Office Web Apps delivered through BPOS as part of future capabilities of BPOS," said Betsy Webb, general manager of Microsoft’s Online Services division, in a phone interview.
Office Web Apps offers hosted versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote that have a subset of the features found in the on-premise Microsoft Office suite.
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Read more at:
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9189323/
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