Office Web Apps: which type of documents are supported

Tuesday, June 8th, 2010

Microsoft announced its Web Apps today, and indeed we provided a full review based on several months’ experience using them. One question it’s worth answering separately, though, is exactly which type of documents are supported by each web app. So here goes.

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Microsoft Office Web Apps review: first look

Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009

We’ve been looking forward to getting to grips with the Office Web Apps ever since the first, highly impressive demos at Microsoft’s Professional Developers Conference (PDC) almost a year ago.

But do the limited apps on offer in the technical preview live up to the promise of those well-polished demos? We find out.

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A plea: abandon Excel 2003 graphs

Friday, September 19th, 2008

I’m writing this from the Budapest World Congress Centre, at Acer’s grandiose and beautifully presented Global Press Conference 2008. It’s a chance for the company to set out its strategy to over 200 journalists, to essentially show off.

So it’s perhaps surprising that it’s still using what I wholly believe to be the world’s worst graphing tool: Excel 2003.

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