Today at its Wordwide Partner Conference in New Orleans, Microsoft announced that the Microsoft Office suite has reached the ‘technical preview’ milestone, and that starting today the company will open up the Office beta program to a larger number of users. While a new version of Office is obviously big news for a lot of users, the really interesting part of the announcement is that Microsoft is also releasing more details about the Office Web applications - which are lightweight, browser-based versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote (Microsoft’s note-taking tool). Beta testers can expect invites for the Office Web applications to go out in August. Sponsor Office Web: Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and OneNote We got a chance to talk to Takeshi Numoto , the corporate vice president of the Microsoft Office Product Management Group, last week.

original Source : Microsoft Launches Office Web Apps and Office 2010 in Limited Beta