JavaScript isn't replacing Office macros anytime soon, but the Office Web apps (and the SharePoint-based enterprise equivalents) are improving regularly. For users that means simple but useful ...

This morning, Microsoft opened the tech preview of its long-anticipated Office Web Apps. Here's a first look at what the online version of Excel has in store.

As web apps go, these are pretty comprehensive—you can select, drag, right-click, and more, just as you would in traditional Word, Excel, and PowerPoint versions.

Windows Live interface is inundating and boring. No paragraph indents in Word (yet). With Office 2010, Microsoft has taken an important (and inevitable) step into internet-stored media. That's right; ...

In Excel Web App, you can "now print right from your browser and rename or add sheets as you need." Office Web Apps were first launched in 2010, allowing users to utilize Office from their Web ...

Microsoft Office finally makes it into the cloud with web-based versions of Excel, PowerPoint and Word. We take a hands-on look at this work in progress.

Microsoft Office Web Apps today entered Technical Preview status. A limited number of invitation-only participants are getting access to Web versions of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, in English and ...

Microsoft has revealed many more new additions that will be put into its free Office Web Apps in the next few days, including a way to add headers and footers in Word Web App documents and more.

Illustration: Keith Negley Everyone is still reeling from the recession, and cash is tight–not, perhaps, the best time for Microsoft to launch a new version of its ubiquitous Office productivity suite ...