With the release of SharePoint Server 2010 and Office 2010 earlier this year, a new set of applications also arrived – Office Web Applications. Office Web Apps are browser-based versions of Office, enabling you to create, view and edit presentations, spreadsheets and documents using just a web browser.
Two questions keep coming up in SharePoint conversations with clients – What’s the licensing for Office Web Apps? Can I create documents using just Office Web Apps with SharePoint or do I still need Office to be installed?…
You can access any document from your Sharepoint server with editing and creation functionalities on your phone.
Today Microsoft finally unveiled Windows Mobile 7, a major upgrade to their mobile phone operating system software. And with it they also announced the Office Hub – accessing Office and SharePoint through the phone. At last…
The reaction to a previous post – Rethinking Office – has been interesting. Quite a few people have argued that Microsoft won’t make an online version of Office available until they absolutely have to, because it will destroy sales of the full product. It makes sense to protect the full product, given it contributes a [...]
Excel Services is a new feature introduced with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS 2007) Enterprise Edition. It enables you to, amongst other things, display information from an Excel 2007 spreadsheet inside an Excel Web Access web part. Why is this useful? There are all sorts of reasons, but the best by far is to [...]
You may or may not have noticed, Google has been rolling out some online services that challenge one of Microsoft’s key territories – Office. Google’s online version is Google Docs. You can use it to create documents, spreadsheets and presentations using nothing more than a web browser with an Internet connection. Currently, Microsoft doesn’t appear [...]
