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 Office 32-bit and 64-bit versions to come on single DVD

Not related to netbook, I know, but nice to know Microsoft is NOT going to completely discard the 32-bit users. Latest word from Microsoft confirms that they will bundle 32-bit version of Office 2010 together with the 64-bit one and that too on a single DVD.