Microsoft is announcing Office Web applications, lightweight versions of its main Office applications that will run in any Web browser.
The news comes during day two of its Professional Developer’s Conference, the two-year developer confab for all kinds of Microsoft platforms and products.
It also is a truly untethered release of its ubiquitous Office applications for the Web, following its Office Live launch, which was mainly about sharing documents rather than creating them on the Web. With today’s news, Microsoft is signaling an even bigger focus on offering its tools in Web-based applications as rivals increasingly offer similar productivity tools over the Web.
Office Web will consist of Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote, a note-taking utility available for Office users. It will run in Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Apple’s Safari browsers.
No release date has been announced by Microsoft, but said it plans to update the suite more frequently than it would with its traditional Office applications, which usually come every three to five years.
Source: Internetnews.com
