



* "Greatly improved" text fidelity at other zoom levels not 100%. "This includes better text spacing and rendering." * Faster load performance, "since typically fewer bytes need to be downloaded before showing the document." He noted that Word Web App, when used with Silverlight, will provide: Under a subhead to his pots entitled "Not all browsers are create equal," Gareth Howell, Program Manager, Office Web Apps, blogged: "The Office Web Apps will work well without any plugins installed, but they get even better if you have Silverlight." (Note: as one reader noted in the comments below, Microsoft doesn't say IE on Windows. In a blog post on August 5, the Office Web Apps team, for the first time, provided some examples of what "lighting up" with Silverlight will mean to the forthcoming Web-ified Office users running IE on Windows.
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Office Web Apps will allow users to view and edit the aforementioned four Office apps from their PCs, phones or anywhere there's an Internet Explorer 7 or 8 (on Windows), Safari 4 (on Mac) or Firefox 3.5 (on Windows, Mac or Linux) installed.īut as the Office Web Apps team has been saying since last fall, only those users accessing those apps from IE on Windows, with the Microsoft Silverlight IE plug-in installed, will get certain advanced viewing capabilities. Microsoft officials have said they plan to release Office Web Apps, which are designed to complement, not replace, client-based Office, at the same time as Office 2010 launches (around May/June 2010, last I heard).
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Microsoft officials first discussed the company's plans to deliver a Web-ified version of Office at the Professional Developers Conference in October, 2008. But the company is sharing a few more details in advance of its release about how Silverlight will "light up" the Webified versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote. Microsoft still has yet to release the technology preview test build of its Office Web Apps that is slated for some time in August.
