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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The five-second itch

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008

Let me begin this entry with one word: aaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!

It’s just happened again, and I hate it. The infernal (substitute that with a fruitier word if you will) five-second wait while I sit here twiddling my thumbs waiting for a web application to do its thing.

I say five seconds, but I don’t know how long it’s going to be. Might be two seconds. Twenty. It could even be longer than a minute. It doesn’t matter that I’ve got a dual-core CPU in this machine, all I can do is wait, for an unspecified time, forthe task on some distant server to complete.

And what am I meant to do while I’m waiting? Make a cup of coffee. I’ve got one. Just there. Make a phone call? Could do, but she already believes I’m stalking her. Write an email? I’ve written all the emails that can be done quickly.

The simple fact is I don’t have any five-second (20-second, minute-long) tasks that need to be done. And even if I did, it distracts me from what I’m meant to be doing in the first place.

Right. I feel a little better now. And I think the web app has finally done it’s thing so back to work.