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If you are curious and eager to try out Office Web Apps, after reading our review, you have to sign up here. Then you have to wait for the invitation to come. But, (once signed up) there is another way to try.
Now this works if you are already in the Office 2010 Tech Preview, but hey you never know, it might if you aren’t too…just follow these steps...
If you’ve been following the tech world lately, Office Web Apps Technical Preview is officially released to selected testers within Windows Live SkyDrive today. (And yes, that is the official name now, so much for trying to find a new “cooler” name for it before.) At the moment, it only supports English and Japanese languages, but it is expected that more languages will be available by the time it’s released. Office Web Apps make full use of the 25GB of storage space in SkyDrive, and thus makes it completely separate from Office Live Workspace. However, it is anticipated that Office Live Workspace will be replaced by Office Web Apps by the time it gets released.
One thing to note for this Technical Preview release is that testers can only create and edit files using Excel and PowerPoint Web Apps – documents can only be viewed in the Word Web App, but you won’t be able to create or edit them in this release. Additionally, OneNote files won’t be available to be viewed nor edited until a later release, despite it being available in the “New” menu in SkyDrive:
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