Office Web Apps (Word, Excel, PowerPoint & OneNote) now live on SkyDrive (for US, UK, Canada & Ireland)

Windows Live - Office is now live on SkyDrive!

“Over the last few months, we've gotten incredible feedback from the hundreds of thousands of users in our Office Web Apps Technical Preview.  We’ve been busy incorporating much of that feedback, and today, Office Web Apps on SkyDrive are now available to everyone in the US, UK, Canada, and Ireland. We’ll have more to share next week when Office 2010 is released to consumers, including how Office 2010 + SkyDrive + Office Web Apps give you the best productivity experience across the PC, phone, and browser.

In the meantime, if you live in the US, UK, Canada, or Ireland, you can head over to Office.live.com today to start viewing and editing Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and OneNote documents right in your web browser – and share them with your friends.

If you don’t live in one of those regions, you can still get access – just click here. You might not get the Web Apps in your favorite language yet, as we are still rolling out updates to different regions. Note that people you share documents with may also need to visit the link above before they can access the documents you share with them.

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Assuming you don’t have a firewall/web proxy that blocks you from using this (sigh) you can now edit your Office Documents (Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote) live in your browser, no local Office install required)

An ironic note, my work’s web proxy/spyware/etc is keeping me from using this feature/functionality in IE8, but in Google Chrome it works just fine. So here’s too cross browser functionality! Yeah!  :p

 

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