Microsoft launches Office 2010 online – Now, that is Cloud Computing!

Microsoft has today officially launched web-based versions of its Office 2010, which Microsoft is calling Office Web Applications. These web-based applications will be a part of Windows Live Skydrive which is an online file storage service (25GB) provided by the Microsoft itself.

This is clearly Microsoft’s answer to the Google Apps, which is Google’s online office suit. Microsoft has been under a lot of pressure since Google released Chrome OS which further took away market share of IE.

It runs fine on all the modern web-browsers including IE, Firefox and Safari. Chrome is currently not supported, but a version that would support it is in the works. Support for Opera is nowhere mentioned.

Oh, we forgot to mention the best part about it: it is FREE!

Microsoft Word 2010 screenshot

Microsoft Powerpoint online screenshot

[Office 2010] [via techcrunchit]