This update brings Word into line with the Excel and OneNote Web Apps, which have had co-authoring features since launch, and also with its main web app competitor, Google Docs. It’s certainly a less fluid collaboration experience that Google Docs’, but presumably one that Microsoft believes is less distracting for users. MORE >>

Office 2010 has a number of innovative online competitors now, not least of which is, of course, Google Docs. Microsoft has responded to that threat by releasing access-anywhere online versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote, with seamless transitioning of work from desktop to the cloud and back again. MORE >>

Office Web Apps is pretty impressive , incorporating browser-based versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote that look and feel very much like the desktop apps. Office Web Apps — Microsoft’s free online version of its Office suite — is now available to users in the U.S., via Windows Team Blog ). MORE >>

This post looks at how this beta stacks up against the Office 2010 Technical Preview (the desktop suite), Google Apps and Zoho Business. think that the reality in many organizations is that web office suites like Office Web Apps, Google Apps and Zoho Business can complement desktop apps, like Microsoft Office. Only on GigaOM Pro. MORE >>

Vote: Treepad P_Smith MrktMind March 30, 2009 at 4:55 AM I want to be able to do mind maps inside of Onenote without leaving Onenote!!! Google Personal Brain for website. eilu Thomas Wanhoff March 30, 2009 at 1:09 PM @Kamatari+: Actually if you have google gears installed you can use it offline as well. spelt Linux wrong! MORE >>