June 7 -Microsoft officially turned on Office Web Apps as a free service at office.live.com (Microsoft’s official line is that this is available to people in the US, UK, Canada, and Ireland). To log in, create a Windows Live ID.
Office Web Apps includes stripped-down versions of: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote a Microsoft employee said that these may be the largest JavaScript Web apps on the planet.
The apps run fast, the interface is familiar and you get 25GB of free space with SkyDrive. It works well in non-Microsoft Web browsers and on mobile devices.
