Microsoft has a fully featured, inclusive approach to productivity that spans platforms, devices, browsers, and online and offline experiences. After more than two decades delivering the world's most familiar and trusted productivity tools, we're incredibly proud that more than one billion people worldwide have chosen to use Office.
When we launched the Office Web Apps in 2010, they were companions to the Office desktop experience that enabled lightweight, on-the-go content creation and review. Since then, we've made a number of investments in Office Web Apps to make it easier for people to work together, author documents and access Office content from virtually any device.
As we think about how people communicate and collaborate today and how their needs will evolve in the future, we'd like to share our plans for some of the investments we are making in the Office Web Apps over the next year and beyond.
We're extending more of the Office experience to the Office Web Apps
Our goal is to deliver Office Web Apps that people can rely on to create polished Office documents from start to finish, all from the Web. Since we first launched Office Web Apps, browser technologies and speeds have advanced and the development infrastructure has matured, making the Web a better platform on which to build Office and more quickly innovate on the Web. With these improvements, we're better able to deliver a comprehensive productivity experience with the Office Web Apps.
To realise our goal of a great Office experience on the Web, we're investing in three areas: user experience, social and collaboration, and broad cross-platform browser support. You'll see us introducing a collection of authoring features that make it easier to collaborate in the cloud, a new real-time co-authoring experience and editing capabilities from more devices.
Amanda Lefebvre is technical product marketing manager for Office Web Apps.
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