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Microsoft's free Office Web Apps now available via SkyDrive
Got a SkyDrive account? If not, you should get one. It's 25GB of free storage -- which you can map to a local drive on your computer -- and the only limitation is files can't exceed 50MB each. That makes it a perfect place to store photos, music -- and Office files.
And now, it's also a great place to edit and create Office files. Yes, Microsoft's free Office Web Apps are now integrated into SkyDrive. Sign in to your SkyDrive, mouse over the New menu, and choose what you want to create. In addition to the trio of Word, Excel, and Power, you can also create a new OneNote notebook. Here's hoping Microsoft (or some ambitious developer) puts together a clipping bookmarklet which allows us to send content directly to notebooks stored in SkyDrive.
If you haven't tried out Office Live's apps yet because you're worried you'll have to use Internet Explorer, fear not! They work just fine in Google Chrome, Firefox, and Opera (even on Linux).
Office Live and SkyDrive are an excellent pairing, but I can't wait to get my hands on the updated Live Sync once Wave 4 rolls out later this summer. For someone like me who needs only basic Office functionality but wants access to files everywhere, it should be a wicked combination.
[via The Windows Blog]
And now, it's also a great place to edit and create Office files. Yes, Microsoft's free Office Web Apps are now integrated into SkyDrive. Sign in to your SkyDrive, mouse over the New menu, and choose what you want to create. In addition to the trio of Word, Excel, and Power, you can also create a new OneNote notebook. Here's hoping Microsoft (or some ambitious developer) puts together a clipping bookmarklet which allows us to send content directly to notebooks stored in SkyDrive.
If you haven't tried out Office Live's apps yet because you're worried you'll have to use Internet Explorer, fear not! They work just fine in Google Chrome, Firefox, and Opera (even on Linux).
Office Live and SkyDrive are an excellent pairing, but I can't wait to get my hands on the updated Live Sync once Wave 4 rolls out later this summer. For someone like me who needs only basic Office functionality but wants access to files everywhere, it should be a wicked combination.
[via The Windows Blog]
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Subscribe to commentsAndroid underlingJun 8th 2010 10:54AM
Just so you know, wave 4 web services also rolled out last night (profile, mobile, webIM, etc). Just not hotmail and things associated to it.
Also, the office web apps are super slick, and I love how you can disable the chrome and all that. Integrated really well into the desktop clients and things like facebook and such. I think we have a winner here.
blasztaJun 8th 2010 12:10PM
I don't see it in my SkyDrive account :(
blasztaJun 8th 2010 12:13PM
Got it! You need to access it from office.live.com
NoahJun 8th 2010 12:20PM
Can you please explain how "you can map to a local drive on your computer"?
I only see an option to sync between two computers using the Sync program... I don't see a way to set up a folder on my local HD that syncs with my Skydrive account.
Please advise? :)
Lee MathewsJun 8th 2010 12:26PM
Whoops! Missed the link.
http://www.downloadsquad.com/2010/04/25/use-office-2010-to-map-a-local-drive-letter-to-your-free-25gb-live-skydrive/
NoahJun 8th 2010 12:54PM
Ah great. Well, I followed the instructions, mapped the drive successfully in Windows 7, and I can create new folders and files on the mapped drive, but for the life of me, I cannot copy over a 5 kb JPG. It keeps telling me permission denied. Do you have the same problem?
sully5059Jun 8th 2010 2:37PM
Sounds interesting. But to get back in my good books they need to start responding to the support requests from people who've had their Hotmail accounts closed with no warning due to apparent "Terms of Use" violations.
My account (which I've had since 1997) somehow got hacked and spam was sent to my contacts but I changed all of my security settings as soon as it happened and I thought that would be the end of it. Nice surprise this morning to find I can't access any of the E-Mails I have stored there.
Based on the support forum it looks like there's a lot today but, worryingly, there are some posts from users who have been waiting weeks with no reply.
fringyJun 8th 2010 4:04PM
It seems that this service is not available in New Zealand :( I do have a Live ID account that I had setup in the UK which provides the new Office option though.... ah well, I will need to wait.