Microsoft put the last piece of its online office suite puzzle in place Monday, officially launching its Web-based suite of Microsoft Office applications called Office Web Apps. However, the biggest news isn't that you can use these Web apps -- many have been in beta for a while now -- rather, it's Microsoft's introduction of an online version of its popular software program Word, a word processing program.
This week's ribbon cutting of Microsoft's Office Web Apps is significant. Google has posed a serious challenge to Microsoft when it comes to offering compelling Web-based alternatives to desktop software programs, namely Microsoft's Office software franchise. Starting this week Microsoft has all its skin in the game with its Office Web Apps to go mano-to-mano with Google's online office suite, Google Docs. More...
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