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Microsoft's pushes Office online
Microsoft recently announced its Office Web Apps, a collection of browser-based applications that provide some, if not all, of the features of its popular Office suite. The web-based applications are available at this point to US- and UK-based users and require that the user has a Windows Live account. |
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It works more or less with Firefox 3.5.9 on Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala). There isn't much too it but it's probably good enough as an alternative document viewer for those Office files that OpenOffice.org won't open. It pushes some proprietary platform called Silverlight and a malware development platform called ActiveX but neither are required. The button for opening the online files locally seems to only work with certain legacy applications but a Greasemonkey script could fix that. Might be useful as a legacy document viewer when migrating users to a more modern OS.
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