Artwork: Chip Taylor Microsoft put the last piece of its online office suite puzzle in place Monday, officially launching its Web-based suite of Microsoft Office applications called Office Web Apps.

Microsoft’s free Office Web Apps include streamlined, online versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote Office apps. These apps are usable in various browsers and offer the capability to view or ...

The Microsoft Word Web App makes Microsoft Word features available on your Web browser, providing you with the convenience of working on documents on a website where the documents are stored. It is a ...

When Microsoft launched its Office Web Apps back in June, the most logical reaction was a simple, “What took you so long?” Competitors such as Google Docs and Zoho proved long ago that it’s possible ...

Microsoft's plan to make Office Web Apps truly useful is admirable, but it's unlikely to give us what we really need If there’s one thing I’ve always hated about Web-based productivity apps, it’s ...

Microsoft is delivering most of the improvements to its Office Web Apps that it promised back in June. For instance, one of the improvements, called "real-time coauthoring," will be available "within ...

When Office 365 rolled out just a couple weeks ago, one of most obvious ways it was lacking in comparison to the rival Google Docs apps was that there was no way to collaborate in real-time on Word ...

Yet another of the pieces of the coming wave of new Office client, server and services updates that went to public beta this week is Office Web Apps. Microsoft execs blogged on July 20 about some of ...

Microsoft made some changes to its Office Web Apps, including the addition of a navigational tool that goes beyond the current ribbon. In a January 22 post to the revamped Office Blogs site, Microsoft ...

Microsoft today announced the availability of co-authoring in its Word web application. Yes, until now, the Word web app couldn’t do this. And people wonder why Google Docs has such a following. That ...

Microsoft put the last piece of its online office suite puzzle in place Monday, officially launching its Web-based suite of Microsoft Office applications called Office Web Apps. However, the biggest ...

Microsoft closed the gap between its Office Web Apps and Google Docs somewhat today by adding co-authoring to the free Word Web App, letting multiple users edit a document simultaneously in the Web ...