Using data from Excel Web with JavaScript; explanations from the new Excel Mashup site The desktop Office apps have been connecting to Office servers for years now, from the original Project ...

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.

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 ...

Excel web app spreadsheets look faithful compared to those created natively. Shaded boxes remained; rows and columns look proportionately correct.

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.

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.

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.

Web-based apps and robust collaboration tools in Microsoft's new Office suite give users good reasons to upgrade.