Windows 7: Microsoft Office Wed Apps For FREE!

Hey,
I was looking a magazine and one of the articles was talking about this thing called Office Web Apps.
I don't know if you guys already know about this,or if its old or something but i decided to check it out.
I had never herd of it so i decided to share it with you guys.
All you have to do is login with your Windows Live ID on microsoft's website and you can choose from Word, Excel, Powerpoint, and One Note and its all online for Free.

Here it is:
Office Web Apps - Microsoft Office

Just press "Get Started Free" and login.
Enjoy.

These are companions to office not office itself.


These convenient online companions to Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote offer you an easy way to access, view, and edit documents directly from your Web browser.1

Indeed. And they do not provide FULL functionality and features as well.

Better off sticking with OpenOffice.

I know its not full but its kinda cool if you ask me.

Hi there
Maybe I'm being obtuse or have mis understood something but WHY on EARTH would I want a WEB BROWSER to read an EXCEL File. (or other office app file).

(Don't confuse with GETTING data from the web directly with EXCEL ==> Get external data -- that's a totally SEPARATE issue and a really good feature in EXCEL anyway).

Usually if I'm doing something with EXCEL or Powerpoint etc I need to run macros, do a "What If" calculation or use the REAL application itself.

In any case there are FREE downloadable VIEWERS for all these Office APPS available from the Microsoft site itself.

Not quite sure of the usefulness of this -- unless it's a future trend where more and more of the OS Kernel will actually be incorporated into the browser - and under EU regs stupid though they are - this won't be allowed as other Browsers have to be offered as choice.

Usually as well if I'm travelling by train or if I have to by Plane and working with MS Office I can't be bothered with connecting to the net on hideously slow public wi-fi connections

-- just try if you are in the UK taking East Coast train from London Kings X to Doncaster / York / Newcastle to logon to the train's public wi-fi system competing with the other 500 passengers or so all wanting to download email etc etc. It's so slow as to be USELESS for any real time work.

If I've misunderstood something then I'll take it back but I'm at a total loss here to work out the point of these web apps.

Cheers
jimbo

Lol, im not sure of what the use is either.
Like i said, i dont know much about this, but i just wanted to share it with you all.

Welcome to the cloud

lol this is old news