Microsoft Office is Online with Skydrive
Earlier today I wrote about how Microsoft was going to be competing with Google Docs and then I got an email from Microsoft. Because I’m a Office 2010 Beta user I’ve got access to Office online via something called SkyDrive.
It’s surprisingly good actually. It isn’t as robust as Word the software, but its 95% of what you would need to use every day. It’s easily as good, if not better than Google Docs. It doesn’t export PDFs, but you can download a Word document. You can also have access to a slimmed down version of Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote. And yes, you can share!
It appears this is only in beta and only available to those who have downloaded Office 2010 Beta–which is a shame. My guess is that a lot of people would want to jump on board. Microsoft should take a cue from Google and give limited betas to your friends.
One extra request: Allow exporting as a PDF.
The killer app: If you could use Outlook for free and it was similar to what comes with the enterprise Exchange server and Microsoft might actually be able to put up a fight with Google.
