Office Web Apps will have support for Android tablets and co-edition with ... - Tablet Zone

Microsoft Web Apps is about to take a major leap that would take to match the level of service that now offers Google Docs. First, they will introduce the real-time collaboration and, secondly, they plan to extend their access Android tablets , after having already pushed Windows 8 tablets and iPad. Apart from these two highlights, features improved editions, co-publishing and will enhance the speed of loading documents.

In a blog post signed by Amanda Lefevre, product marketing manager, has reported these advances while he recalled the beginning of this service. From the beginning, back in 2010, the idea was carry package functions to the cloud Office so you could work on your documents from anywhere, which in turn could share them to perform collaborative work . There we found Word, PowerPoint, Excel and One Note as a web application.

This last section was not entirely well polished. Before we needed to refresh the page to see what changes were making the people who had given them permission to edit. Now we see in real time what changes are taking place in the document. In this video you can see it working.

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that improved collaboration capabilities makes sense, it is important that you can access documents from as many different devices as possible so as not to exclude various partners or situations. Windows 8 tablets and the iPad already have access to this service through any browser, in the first case, and through Safari on the second. Will now support the mobile version of Chrome to view and edit these documents from Android tablets, a device type with a large presence in the market, which is also growing.

Source: Microsoft Office Blog