A large number of business watchers had been expecting July 13 to be Microsoft;s coming-out celebration for Office Web Programs, the business;s Web-centric edition of its core Workplace apps (Phrase, Excel,
Microsoft Office Enterprise 2007, poerPoint and OneNote) — and head-to-head competitor with Google Docs.But there won;t be an Office Internet Apps tech preview test build coming today. Or even later this week. Invited testers (and not the general public) have to wait until some time in August for the Microsoft-sanctioned Workplace Internet Apps test build.(An unsanctioned test build of Workplace 2010, which included the Web Apps, leaked a couple of months ago. Microsoft has not responded to my query as to whether the Workplace Web Apps build will be the same as the one that leaked in May or a more recent build.)Microsoft officials first mentioned publicly Office Internet Applications in October 2008 at the business;s Professional Developers Conference. Microsoft offered very handful of details about what kinds of functionality the Web Apps will deliver and not deliver. (Example: I;ve heard printing directly from and saving to those Apps won;t be possible without passing through SharePoint Server.)At its Worldwide Partner Conference, which kicks off on July thirteen,
Windows 7 Keygen, the firm is providing some additional details about its distribution plans for Workplace Internet Apps.As enterprise officials said last year, Microsoft will offer both paid and free versions of Workplace Internet Apps when they ship in the first half of 2010. Consumers will be able to get them for free by downloading them via from the combined Windows Live/Office Live service. Software Assurance customers will have the added option of running the Office Web Apps on premise, accessing their on-premise SharePoint Servers. And Office Internet Apps also will be accessible as a set of Microsoft-hosted services (under the Microsoft Online brand).Using Microsoft math, Microsoft execs are calculating — and touting — that Office Web Apps,
Microsoft Office Standard 2010, once they ship in the first half of 2010,
Office 2010 Pro Key, will “be available to up to half a billion customers.” They;ll be available for free to 400 million Windows Live consumers; available via Software Assurance to 90 million Office annuity customers; and to the remaining 510 million existing Workplace customers via Microsoft Online services.Microsoft also is running a lot of potential final names for Workplace Web Applications past its customers. in the running: Office Ensemble,
Office Standard 2010 Key, Office Equipt, Office Optro, Workplace Offline and Workplace ArcLight.