Microsoft's Technical Preview of Web-based editions of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint shows that Google is in for a fight Microsoft unveiled the much anticipated Web-hosted versions of its Microsoft ...

Office Web Apps is a good offering that enhances the Office ecosystem, which includes OneNote and SharePoint. It provides excellent collaboration features and you can get done pretty much everything ...

Microsoft's plan to make Office Web Apps truly useful is admirable, but it's unlikely to give us what we really need If there’s one thing I’ve always hated about Web-based productivity apps, it’s ...

Choosing to risk cannibalizing its own sales rather than let competitors such as Google Inc. eat away at them, Microsoft Corp. will give consumers and corporate users free access to the upcoming Web ...

Microsoft has said that nearly 50 million people use Office Web Apps, but when I talk to non-techies they often don’t realize a free online version of Office even exists. That may change soon, as ...

After teasing the market multiple times, Microsoft Corp. plans to finally confirm today that it’s bringing its most money-making desktop software franchise online and to smart phones. Microsoft will ...

Everyone uses Microsoft Office. The problem is, it’s expensive—starting at $140 for a single computer license or a whopping $99 a year under Microsoft’s new subscription plan. But if you’re upgrading ...

Microsoft plans to accelerate improvements in Office Web Apps, the browser-based version of the Office suite, adding features like real-time co-authoring of documents and the ability to run in Android ...

Although it's hard to come by cold, hard numbers on the amount of those using Google Docs or Apps, research firm IDC reported in July of this year that of companies surveyed, Google Docs was being ...