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But how come Microsoft wasn’t able to fix them? With its repeated references to Office Web Apps a “companion” to Office 2010 on the desktop, it’s hard to believe all these shortcomings root from technical limitations, and not intentional handicapping meant to ensure the paid product (which stands at $500 in its professional form) remains supreme. Google Docs shares every one of these same limitations. Or creating quotation marks that “turn” to fit the text rather than sitting “straight” up and down, or underlining questionable grammar. Small features like automatically turning a short “en” – dash into a long “em” – dash. Supplement or Replacement?Īlthough the ribbon remains, many of the creature comforts we’ve come to appreciate in the plush desktop version of Office have evaporated in the condensed version found on the Web. Although this initially confusing ribbon design irked us at first on Office 2007, we’ve had a chance to adjust over the past three years, and we’re at least please to see Microsoft shooting for consistency rather that gambling with a another confusing and “revolutionary” design change. In Word, you can tab through three different iterations of it: Home, Insert, and View. The same mishmash of tools that formerly found themselves under categories like “Tools” on the top menu bar have been scattered along an inch-tall ribbon. And if you didn’t like it then, you’re not going to like it now. On the other, the ribbon interface was never a complete win for Microsoft to begin with. On one hand, that makes it incredibly easy to pick up for anyone who has found themselves using Microsoft Word over the past three years. Microsoft’s Office Web Interface retains the “ribbon” interface first introduced with Office 2007. But can the notoriously slow-to-evolve corporation deliver? We spent days putting the Web Apps through its paces in our own work environment to find out. With an extra three years to learn – and improve on – Google’s formula, not to mention decades of experience with its own products, Microsoft certainly has the potential to become the office suite to beat with Web Apps. On Tuesday, the company threw the switch on Office Web Apps – a competing suite of Web-based work applications including Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote. More than three years after Google first fired its opening salvo against Microsoft Office with Google Docs, the sleeping Seattle giant has finally returned fire.