As part of their major shift towards cloud services, and perhaps in direct response to Google Docs, Microsoft have announced at PDC 2008 plans to “deliver Office Web applications – lightweight versions of Office – through web browsers”.

This will give users web versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote powered through Microsoft’’s Office Live service, with both ad-based and subscription offerings.

To learn more, please click here for the official announcement.

Thanks, once again, to Microsoft’s Steve Clayton for the information.

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Microsoft OfficeLabs have released pptPlex for Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007, a free add-in that allows you to show slides on a zoomable canvas, moving around the extended area to show groups of slides, individual slides or zoom in to display a particular section of a slide.

Video: An Overview of pptPlex

Please visit the pptPlex project page for further details.

Now, should I get Ian Mills to use pptPlex to explain his network diagram at the next Secondary Tech Forum? Feel free to comment below. J

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