Microsoft has announced its online Office web applications but are they really going to give Google a run for its money?
Microsoft recently announced its Office Web Apps, a collection of browser-based applications that provide some, if not all, of the features of its popular Office suite. The web-based applications are available at this point to US- and UK-based users and require that the user has a Windows Live account.
Microsoft’s web-based Office strategy has hardly been a secret but it has been a long time in the coming. Competing online applications such as GoogleDocs and Zoho Office have been available for close on four years now (GoogleDocs launched in October 2006) and in that time have been gaining ground.
Uncategorized June 18th 2010