Using data from Excel Web with JavaScript; explanations from the new Excel Mashup site The desktop Office apps have been connecting to Office servers for years now, from the original Project ...

Microsoft Office finally makes it into the cloud with web-based versions of Excel, PowerPoint and Word. We take a hands-on look at this work in progress.

This morning, Microsoft opened the tech preview of its long-anticipated Office Web Apps. Here's a first look at what the online version of Excel has in store.

Excel Web App: Nicely-done charting features (added in a recent update) are a highpoint of the Excel Web App. Certain aspects of Microsoft’s online suite are impressive.

The online versions of Microsoft Word and Excel challenge longtime Web-app leader Google Docs, while PowerPoint takes on Zoho Show in the online-presentation category.

Microsoft is delivering most of the improvements to its Office Web Apps that it promised back in June.

In August, 2010, Network World's Microsoft Subnet is giving away 15 copies of the book Using Microsoft Excel 2010. Here is an excerpt that introduced the Excel Web App.

Microsoft adds a new Copilot function to Excel, letting users generate, analyze, and summarize data directly in spreadsheet ...

Microsoft has introduced several new desktop Excel features in the last few months, including checkboxes and regex support. However, the Excel web app hasn't gotten a lot of love this year.

The Excel Web app interface isn’t as full-featured as the desktop version, and it also hasn’t changed much since PCWorld’s first look at the Excel Web app in September.

Office 2013 Web Apps: A step forward, but still dependent on the desktop Updated applications augment, but can't replace, their desktop counterparts.