Using the Microsoft® Office Web Apps

1. Introducing the Office Web Apps

This chapter gives you your first look at the Office Web Apps by comparing them to the desktop counterparts and showing you how to access the Office Web Apps.

Although you’re no doubt used to working with programs and data on your computer or perhaps on your network, we’re at the start of a new era where we’ll all be working with programs and data over the Internet. Microsoft is helping to usher in this new era by creating some of the “plumbing” that enables software, services, and data to reside happily and safely on the Internet. The collection of servers, programs, services, and data storage that makes all this happen is often called the cloud and working “out there” instead of “in here” is often called ...