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Later today, April 22, microsoft project 2010 is slated to make available to project professional 2010 and MSDN subscribers the release-to-manufacturing version of Office 2010!
In preparation for the Office 2010 rollout, microsoft project 2007 has delivered for download a number of free product guides in PDF format! One in which many Office customers and tire-kickers are often quite interested is the Office Web Apps Product Guide!
Office Web Apps are designed to be companions to Microsoft Office! They provide a way to to view, alter, and share files right from a Web browser (Internet explorer 7 or later for Windows; Safari 4 or later for Apple pc; and Safari 3. 5 or later for Windows, Apple pc, or Linux)!
Microsoft has been doling out its Office Web Apps story in a piecemeal and fairly confusing way over the past two years! It was never entirely clear exactly clear (to me, at least) exactly which functionality — view, alter, save, print, etc! — would be possible for the four products comprising your place of work Web Apps suite!
The four apps Microsoft has said will join both the consumer and the business versions of Office Web Apps are Word Web, Surpass Web, PowerPoint Web and OneNote Web! It was only after skimming the product Guide i always realized a couple of things!
First, the consumer version of Office Web Apps did not RTM along with the rest of the Office 2010 suite a while back! The consumer version is the free, ad-supported version of the Office Web Apps suite that users will be able to access via their Windows Live Skydrive and Hotmail services!
Office Web Apps for business users did RTM, however! The business version requires SharePoint Server 2010 so that you can as used by a client on-premises, or can be used as a published subscription service managed by Microsoft! Those wanting to run Office Web Apps on areas must purchase a volume permission version of Office Professional Plus 2010 or Office Standard 2010 to get a permission for Office Web Apps! Microsoft hasn’t yet explained or detailed how much it cost (per user/per month) to run Office Web Apps as a published service!
“For consumers, on the Windows Live environment, Office Web Apps will remain in technical preview until availability, ” a corporate spokesperson told me, when i double-checked on final-bit availability! We still don’t know exactly when Windows Live Samsung wave s8500 4 — the version supporting Office Web Apps — will be released to the Web, other than “some time later this calendar year! ”
Secondly, OneNote Web — the Webified version of Microsoft’s OneNote note-taking application — isn’t there yet at all in the consumer version! In other words, it is not even in technical preview! Nor is the abilility to alter a Word Web application!
I assume the Microsoft Docs application — a version of Office Web Apps that is tailored for Facebook, a beta of which Microsoft showcased on April 7 — will have the same limitations as the consumer version of Office Web Apps!
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