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Microsoft Brings Office Online To Chrome OS; Ars Reviews Windows Phone 8.1

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the worst-frenemies dept.

SmartAboutThings (1951032) writes "While we are still waiting for the official Windows 8.1 touch-enabled apps to get launched on the Windows Store, Microsoft went and decided that it's time to finally bring the Office online apps to the Chrome Web Store, instead. Thus, Microsoft is making the Web versions of its Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote apps available to users through the Chrome Web Store and also improving all of them with new features, along with several bug fixes and performance improvements." More on the Microsoft front: an anonymous reader wrote in with a link to Ars Technica's review of the upcoming Windows Phone 8.1 release: "It is a major platform update even if it is just a .1 release. Updates include the debut of Cortana, using the same kernel as Windows 8.1 and the Xbox One, a notebook reminder app, inner circle friend management, IE 11, Nokia's camera app by default, lock screen and background customizations, a much improved email client with calendar support, more general Windows 8.1 API inclusion for better portability, and a notification center. Ars rated it more of a Windows Phone 9 release than .1 update."

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  1. All I can say to that is... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    who?

    1. Re:All I can say to that is... by MightyMartian · · Score: 5, Funny

      Apparently some company in Redmond, WA is putting out a mobile clone of OpenOffice.

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  2. Re:Yawn. by MightyMartian · · Score: 5, Funny

    What happens to the vast minority of people who always think they are in the vast majority?

    They join some Libetarian populist movement and demand all government services with the exception of those they partake of to be slashed or eliminated?

    And yes, oh ye mighty moderators, this is trolling.

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  3. Re: WIndows 8.1 preview install instructions by ljw1004 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Cortana is optimized too for American accents in this release.

    Not much of a problem. I have a strong English accent, and the same technique works with Cortana as speaking abroad... I just speak LOUDLY AND CONDESCENDINGLY. :)