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Office Web Apps: what's in it for students?

A look over the Office Web Apps and what to expect from a student's point of view by Zack Whittaker

Tags: Web Application, Student, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Office 2010, Windows Live, Cloud computing, E-learning, Office Web Apps, Microsoft, Silverlight, Zack Whittaker

Image galleries 2009-09-22

Office Web Apps Technical Preview

In September 2009, Microsoft made a partial technical preview of its new Office Web Apps suite available for a select group of testers and partners. What can you do with these "streamlined" Office programs, and which features are missing? I take a closer look. by Ed Bott

Tags: Web Application, Microsoft Office, Cloud Computing, Office Suites, Software, Office Web Apps, Office 2010, Excel, PowerPoint, Word, OneNote, Ed Bott

Image galleries 2009-09-20

Office Web Apps: New screenshots

Microsoft is releasing to a private group of testers a Community Technology Preview CTP test build of its Office Web Apps on September 17. Here are some screen shots of what testers will see now and later this fall when a public beta hits of Microsoft's Web-ified versions of Word,...

Tags: Public Beta, Web Application, Microsoft Office, Cloud Computing, Office Suites, Software, Office Web Apps, Office 2010, Office for Mobile, Office for Mac, SharePoint, Mary Jo Foley

Image galleries 2009-09-17

Office 2010: What Microsoft will and won't say

I've got a question..Maybe you can pass it along, but how long until we know the color themes available in Office 2010? The CTP only has 1 color, although it hints at others.Office 2007's color themes weren't set in stone until RTM, the Beta themes were drastically different than the...

Tags: Microsoft Office, Office 2010, ribbon, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-08-31

Microsoft to add more anti-piracy features to Office 2010

It's been said before, but it bears repeatingIf Microsoft spent anywhere near the time it spends policing piracy on feature correctness, and bug squashing, there would be much less need to worry about piracy.Most people know that there are many ways to get Office cheaply and legitimately, and no one...

Tags: Piracy, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., antipiracy

Discussion threads 2009-08-27

How will Silverlight light up Microsoft's Web-based Office apps?

minor typo"But a the Office Web Apps team has been saying since last fall" should be "But as the Office Web Apps team has been saying since last fall"Feel free to delete this. :-)I expect the web based Office...to go the way of so many more of their web services....

Tags: cloud computing, Office 2010, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Silverlight, Microsoft Corp., Office Web Apps, Office Web, Office Apps, Web

Discussion threads 2009-08-07

Invitation-only Windows 7 beta testers to get free copy of Ultimate

Invitation-only Windows 7 beta testers to get free copy of UltimateWindows Feedback Panel Members tooWindows Feedback Panel members will have to run the tool in RC for at least 4months for them to qualify. The email said a copy Windows 7 Ultimate will be mailed out right after General Availability....

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Invitation only Windows 7 beta, Windows Feedback, e-mail, free-COPY

Discussion threads 2009-07-30

Microsoft privately testing Office 2010 streaming-download model

Microsoft privately testing Office 2010 streaming-download modelCTR Inferior So FarAfter installing CTR on my Windows 7 machine, I can say that this installation method so far is inferior to a single downloaded .exe installation for Office. Installing each EXE piecemeal as you require to run them instead of a one-time...

Tags: Outlook 2010, Microsoft Office, CTR, Office 2010, streaming-download model, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-07-28

Microsoft is switching from defense back to offense

Microsoft is switching from defense back to offenseThis is just a repeat of...Larry's "Edge" article. A huge waste of time and money?[i]I still think Bing was a huge waste of time and money[/i]Why? It has you talking. And Ed, And Christopher. And even Paul Murphy![i]drew praise from tech pundits and...

Tags: Corporate law, Office 2010, Bing, Microsoft Corp., Novell Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-07-20

Office 2010 to hit networks and the web in style

Office 2010 to hit networks and the web in styleI think you got it all the wrong way 'round...Thank you for giving us a wonderful presentation no MS rep could have bettered, but you are unfortunately living in a Microsoft dream world: Where Ajax and xhtml gets replaced by another...

Tags: XHTML, Channel management, Office 2010, Microsoft Office, Web, network

Discussion threads 2009-07-14

Screenshots of new Office 2010 web applications user interface

A look at the new features and user interface of the upcoming Office 2010 web applications by Zack Whittaker

Tags: Web, User Interface, Web Application, Cloud Computing, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Web Applications, Office 2010, Office 14, Zack Whittaker, iGeneration, Microsoft

Image galleries 2009-07-14

Office 2010 Backstage: content context = collaboration

Office 2010 Backstage: content context = collaborationToo Late?By the time MS gets its software out Google will be even further down the road. There is a related post at http://iamsoannoyed.com/?page_id=588

Tags: Groupware, Office 2010 Backstage, Office 2010, collaboration, Microsoft Office

Discussion threads 2009-07-14

Translate text by pointing (An early look at Office 2010)

Translate text by pointing (An early look at Office 2010)Some nice changes from 2007I see some changes I really like, but probably won't upgrade from 2007 for some time. I think MS has made an outstanding move to get away from the old menu system with sub menus buried...

Tags: Translate Text, Office 2010, Microsoft Office, early look, ribbon

Discussion threads 2009-07-13

Microsoft to deliver invitation-only tech preview build of Office 2010

Microsoft to deliver invitation-only tech preview build of Office 2010Too ComplicatedHaving used the May version of the 2010 Preview. I can say that they are really over complicating Office.You can only type up a Word document so many ways. They need to focus on other directions for Office...

Tags: Word processors, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Office, Office 2010, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-07-13

An early look at Office 2010

Microsoft has released a Technical Preview of its Office 2010 Professional suite. Here are some of the new and improved features you can expect to see in it. by Ed Bott

Tags: Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Office 2010, Microsoft, Ed Bott

Image galleries 2009-07-13

Office 2010 makes a splashy (but incomplete) public debut

Office 2010 makes a splashy but incomplete public debutWho's going to test this?Are you planning to be part of the initial test program? What are you looking forward to?I'm planning on testingbut the office apps I use the most are OneNote, Outlook and Visio. I'm happy to see the...

Tags: Number 3, Office 2010, Microsoft Office, public debut

Discussion threads 2009-07-13

Office 2010 makes a splashy (but incomplete) public debut

Can Microsoft hit back-to-back home runs? The Office team has to be feeling some heat as they hang around the on-deck circle waiting for Windows 7 to release to manufacturing later this month. With today's announcement of a Technical Preview release of Office 2010 at Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference in...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Office 2010, Office Team, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Ed Bott

Blog posts 2009-07-13

Microsoft jumps gun on Office 2010 announcement

Microsoft jumps gun on Office 2010 announcementRE: Microsoft jumps gun on Office 2010 announcementYet another MS product where all the deliverables were submitted on time and presentation is smooth and flawless.Oh. Sorry, was I thinking about Apple again.RE: Microsoft jumps gun on Office 2010 announcementDeliberately done as a marketing...

Tags: Office 2010 announcement, Office 2010, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-07-13

Microsoft wants students for Office 2010 test

Microsoft wants students for Office 2010 testLook who is talking about getting something right...What "facts" are you going to fabricate while drunk next, Zack?My suggestion to you is to not blog about anything MS related. Didn't [b]this[/b] teach you a lesson...?http://blogs.zdnet.com/igeneration/?p=1832To be honest with you I am surprised that...

Tags: Office 2010, Microsoft WANTS, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office

Discussion threads 2009-06-23

Microsoft's Office 2010 Pro Plus: What's inside?

Microsoft's Office 2010 Pro Plus: What's inside?Pro Plus and Enterprise versionsBoth of these are volume/enterprise license SKUs only so should be of little concern to non-corporate users.Is it x64?Is office 2010 x64 or is it x86 only still??Office 2010It's the same as 2007 except addition of Groove and OneNote to...

Tags: Scripting languages, Microsoft VBA, Microsoft Office, SKU, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-06-19