Last week Microsoft launched the new Why Microsoft website as part of The Future of Productivity website . On this website you can find useful information to compare Microsoft’s productivity platform against Google Apps, IBM, Cisco and OpenOffice. Microsoft vs Google Information On the Microsoft...

Broadcast Slide Show feature allows a user to broadcast a presentation from PowerPoint 2010 to other users – either Internal or External. The presenter needs to select a service from a list of broadcast services displayed by PowerPoint 2010. This list may include internal and external providers, and...

Many organizations include users who are distributed across WAN links and users who are not always connected to the network. A new TechNet article for our SharePoint customers - Client solutions for WAN environments (SharePoint Server 2010) describes client solutions that can be used across slow network...

Recently published Co-authoring administration (SharePoint Server 2010) TechNet article provides guidance for administrators to configure co-authoring for their organization. Many of these are using Windows PowerShell cmdlets. Configure versioning for co-authoring (SharePoint Server 2010) - When...

What is Docs? Docs allows Facebook users to create, save, edit and share Microsoft Office (Word, Excel and PowerPoint) documents online with their Facebook friends. Docs shows up as an App on your Facebook profile and new documents also show up in the news feed. Read more here: Introducing Docs for...

Microsoft Office Web Apps are online companions to Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote, enabling people to access and do light editing or sharing of Office documents from virtually anywhere. I had given an overview in my previous post - Office Web Applications . This post is about getting...

In case you did not notice, Office Web Apps will not work for documents in Information Rights Management (IRM) protected libraries. If you try to open/edit a IRM protected document in browser, you will notice an error similar to this: For IRM-protected document libraries or libraries containing...

Office Web Applications is a new web based productivity offering in Microsoft Office 2010 suite. You can watch the demo here: Demo of the Office Web Apps Office Web Apps services include companions to Microsoft Word 2010, Microsoft Excel 2010, Microsoft PowerPoint 2010, and Microsoft OneNote 2010...

Microsoft Office Web Apps are online companions to Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote, enabling people to access and do light editing or sharing of Office documents from virtually anywhere. Office Web Apps is available to consumers and businesses through: SkyDrive in Windows Live: For...

Office Web Apps give users a browser-based viewing and editing experience by providing a representation of an Office document in the browser. When a user clicks on a document stored in a SharePoint document library, the document opens directly in the browser. The document appears in the browser similar...

As part of Office 365 offering , a subscription pricing model for Office will be available called Microsoft Office Professional Plus desktop suite. This suite includes the following Office 2010 Applications: Microsoft Access 2010 Microsoft Excel 2010 Microsoft InfoPath 2010 Microsoft OneNote...

Office Web Apps are the online companion to Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote, Office Web Apps enables users to access and edit documents from anywhere you have a connection to your organization’s SharePoint site. Users can view, share, and work on documents with others online across...