Larry Kuhn

Earlier this week the Technical Preview of Office Web Applications was turned on within Skydrive.

If you're not familiar with Skydrive, it's the cloud stroage offering of Windows Live.  Just browse over to http://skydrive.live.com, log in with your Windows Live ID account, navigate into one of your folders, and at the top of the window you will be presented with a link to click on to participate in the Office Web Applications Technical Preview.

Once you click on that link, and accept the terms of service, from that point on you will see a "New" menu within your Skydrive folders, where you can choose to create new Word, Excel, PowerPoint or OneNote files.  Here's a screenshot of the in-browser editing experience for a PowerPoint:

Really slick!  Kudos to the Office and Windows Live teams!