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Microsoft adds real-time joint editing to Office Web Apps |
November 07, 2013
Office Web Apps, the browser-based, pared-down version of the Microsoft suite, now lets people co-edit documents in real time, a capability its main rival Google Docs has had for more than two years.Until now, people could jointly edit Office Web Apps documents but changes had to be saved for other collaborators to see them. With the new live co-authoring feature, colleagues will see each other's modifications as they're made.Microsoft, which announced the feature on Thursday, has also added auto-save to the suite's Word application. The other three applications -- Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote -- already had this feature."We're putting a lot of effort on Office Web Apps," said John Case, Microsoft's corporate vice president for Office marketing.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
Link: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2061820/microsoft-adds-realtime-joint-editing-to-office-web-apps.html#tk.rss_all
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