Microsoft Adds Chrome Support For Office Web Apps

CWmike writes "Microsoft will release the first service pack for Office 2010 in late June, when it will for the first time support Google's Chrome running the suite's online applications using SharePoint 2010, the company said on Monday. Google and Microsoft have repeatedly knocked heads over each others' online applications. In May 2010, Matthew Glotzbach, Google's enterprise product management director, kicked off the public battle by urging companies to forget about upgrading to Office 2010 and calling on them to instead add Google Docs to their mix. 'Google Docs makes Office 2003 and 2007 better,' Glotzbach said at the time. Microsoft quickly countered by saying that Google Docs' integration with Office was inferior to Office Web Applications' and that its rival's claims were 'simply not true.'"

Comments

Re:Embrace, Extend, then Extinguish.

[mehrotra.akash]

Chromebooks..

If/when people use chrome OS, they would have to use Google Docs, which may have driven other people who use MS office to use Google Docs or openoffice.(when they share their files)

Now, if people migrate to Chrome OS, they will still be able to use the familiar MS office file formats

Re:Google Docs falls short

[shutdown -p now]

Tou need to compare Google Docs to Office Web Apps rather than desktop office to stay on-topic.

The question of whether you can get away with "web only", or if it's just a neat addition to the traditional desktop suite, is a different one.