August 25, 2010 11:24 AM PDT
by Lance Whitney

The PowerPoint Web App now lets you tap into Microsoft's online library of clip art.
(Credit:
Screenshot by Lance Whitney/CNET)

Although officially only two months old, Microsoft’s Office Web Apps is already growing up a bit.
To satisfy just some of the many user requests for new features, [...]

July 29, 2010 6:00 AM PDT
by Ina Fried

REDMOND, Wash.–Aiming to show it is still winning customers against Google, Microsoft on Thursday announced deals to provide hosted e-mail and portal software to three big corporate customers.

The software maker said Dow Chemical, Hyatt Hotels, and the University of Georgia are all using the [...]

June 15, 2010 4:00 AM PDT
by Ina Fried

As Office 2010 hits retail shelves on Tuesday, it finds itself competing with a host of free rivals, not the least of which are two new options from Microsoft itself.

Redmond has long had to deal with free alternatives, including everything from OpenOffice to Google [...]

June 9, 2010 11:06 AM PDT
by Ina Fried

With Microsoft’s Office Web Apps out in the wild, I thought it was time to try to test their limits.

For a while now, Microsoft has said that the experience on the
iPhone would be similar to that in other mobile browsers–allowing document viewing, but not [...]

June 8, 2010 9:49 AM PDT
by Ina Fried

Officially joining the browser-based productivity game, Microsoft late Monday released the browser-based versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote.

The so-called Office Web Apps are slimmed down versions of the desktop counterparts, allowing for document viewing, sharing and lightweight editing. Consumers get free access to [...]