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'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 ...

The surprises from Microsoft just keep coming. The most interesting aspect of this week’s Microsoft Office 2010 announcements was that the online web version of Office 2010 apps will be free. That’s ...

I don't use Microsoft Office very often. I do most of my writing in Obsidian and my number crunching in Google Sheets. Every once in a while, though, someone who does use Office sends me a Word ...

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 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 ...

As someone with a tech-related job, I’m regularly bombarded with questions about the best smartphones, why emails might have suddenly stopped showing up, and how to back up photos and videos. There’s ...

When you first log in (Office 365 supports Internet Explorer and Firefox, but not Chrome), you’re greeted by a simple, straightforward page that lets you navigate to the Web-based version of Outlook ...

What just happened? Microsoft has quietly released a free, ad-supported version of Office, granting access to Word, PowerPoint, and Excel with limited functionality. Unlike the online version of ...

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 ...