One of the more startling announcements we've caused by buy windows 10 since the first word that Office will support OpenDocument Format as an alternative default, was last week's news that access to the forthcoming Office Live Apps would be available to all users free of charge. We're being told again and again that there are no catch, no asterisk with small print behind it, that Microsoft is perfectly happy to allow everyone edit Office documents online with free streaming.

Maybe Office Web Apps don't have to be cheap office 2016 , but as representatives have discussed with Betanews, the company's feeling would be that the final product needs to address the everyday needs of approximately 90% of their usage base, or perhaps 90% from the needs of all of its usage base. If that mark represents the goal post, then Microsoft includes a long distance to visit still to achieve that mark, based on what we're seeing in the initial Technical Preview of Office Web Apps.

The storage format for Office Web Apps is ISO 29500/Open Office XML, meaning its versions of Word, PowerPoint, and Excel won't display or edit the .DOC, .PPT, and .XLS files, respectively, from cheap windows 7 . At this time, the Technical Preview from the Word app only displays Word files, with no editing facilities. This despite Microsoft having shown us relatively a relatively workable Word Web app with editing functionality as soon as October 2008.