{"id":4115,"date":"2014-08-01T05:12:40","date_gmt":"2014-08-01T05:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningaloud.com\/blog\/?p=4115"},"modified":"2014-08-01T05:12:40","modified_gmt":"2014-08-01T05:12:40","slug":"office-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learningaloud.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/01\/office-online\/","title":{"rendered":"Office Online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I frequently write about Google apps which I feel offer students great opportunities and value. While I believe Google offers the best resources of this type, I also believe that without competition companies fail to improve and take advantage of the commitment of their users.<\/p>\n<p>So, I propose that if you are a committed Microsoft user that you try out <a href=\"http:\/\/office.microsoft.com\/en-us\/products\/compare-microsoft-office-products-FX104165233.aspx?WT.z_clid=O16_Home\">Office Online<\/a>. I was surprised when I tried to investigate this service and found that I already an account. Evidently Office Online is the follow-up to Microsoft web apps and documents created with Online are stored in OneDrive with is the follow-up to SkyDrive.<\/p>\n<p>Online is a free product that offers a software as service equivalent of Word, Excel and PowerPoint. The free version comes with 15 gigabytes of storage. Microsoft offers a service similar to Google Apps for Education &#8211; <a href=\"%20http:\/\/office.microsoft.com\/en-us\/academic\/compare-office-365-education-plans-FX103045755.aspx\">Office 365 Education<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"%20http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2014\/2\/20\/5429072\/microsoft-office-online-features-launch\">The Verge<\/a> offers a comparison<\/p>\n<div class=\"pvc_clear\"><\/div>\n<p id=\"pvc_stats_4115\" class=\"pvc_stats all  \" data-element-id=\"4115\" style=\"\"><i class=\"pvc-stats-icon medium\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><svg aria-hidden=\"true\" focusable=\"false\" data-prefix=\"far\" data-icon=\"chart-bar\" role=\"img\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" viewBox=\"0 0 512 512\" class=\"svg-inline--fa fa-chart-bar fa-w-16 fa-2x\"><path fill=\"currentColor\" d=\"M396.8 352h22.4c6.4 0 12.8-6.4 12.8-12.8V108.8c0-6.4-6.4-12.8-12.8-12.8h-22.4c-6.4 0-12.8 6.4-12.8 12.8v230.4c0 6.4 6.4 12.8 12.8 12.8zm-192 0h22.4c6.4 0 12.8-6.4 12.8-12.8V140.8c0-6.4-6.4-12.8-12.8-12.8h-22.4c-6.4 0-12.8 6.4-12.8 12.8v198.4c0 6.4 6.4 12.8 12.8 12.8zm96 0h22.4c6.4 0 12.8-6.4 12.8-12.8V204.8c0-6.4-6.4-12.8-12.8-12.8h-22.4c-6.4 0-12.8 6.4-12.8 12.8v134.4c0 6.4 6.4 12.8 12.8 12.8zM496 400H48V80c0-8.84-7.16-16-16-16H16C7.16 64 0 71.16 0 80v336c0 17.67 14.33 32 32 32h464c8.84 0 16-7.16 16-16v-16c0-8.84-7.16-16-16-16zm-387.2-48h22.4c6.4 0 12.8-6.4 12.8-12.8v-70.4c0-6.4-6.4-12.8-12.8-12.8h-22.4c-6.4 0-12.8 6.4-12.8 12.8v70.4c0 6.4 6.4 12.8 12.8 12.8z\" class=\"\"><\/path><\/svg><\/i> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Loading\" src=\"https:\/\/learningaloud.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/page-views-count\/ajax-loader-2x.gif\" border=0 \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"pvc_clear\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I frequently write about Google apps which I feel offer students great opportunities and value. 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So, I propose that if you are a committed Microsoft &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/learningaloud.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/01\/office-online\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Office Online<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"pvc_clear\"><\/div>\n<p id=\"pvc_stats_4115\" class=\"pvc_stats all  \" data-element-id=\"4115\" style=\"\"><i class=\"pvc-stats-icon medium\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><svg aria-hidden=\"true\" focusable=\"false\" data-prefix=\"far\" data-icon=\"chart-bar\" role=\"img\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" viewBox=\"0 0 512 512\" class=\"svg-inline--fa fa-chart-bar fa-w-16 fa-2x\"><path fill=\"currentColor\" d=\"M396.8 352h22.4c6.4 0 12.8-6.4 12.8-12.8V108.8c0-6.4-6.4-12.8-12.8-12.8h-22.4c-6.4 0-12.8 6.4-12.8 12.8v230.4c0 6.4 6.4 12.8 12.8 12.8zm-192 0h22.4c6.4 0 12.8-6.4 12.8-12.8V140.8c0-6.4-6.4-12.8-12.8-12.8h-22.4c-6.4 0-12.8 6.4-12.8 12.8v198.4c0 6.4 6.4 12.8 12.8 12.8zm96 0h22.4c6.4 0 12.8-6.4 12.8-12.8V204.8c0-6.4-6.4-12.8-12.8-12.8h-22.4c-6.4 0-12.8 6.4-12.8 12.8v134.4c0 6.4 6.4 12.8 12.8 12.8zM496 400H48V80c0-8.84-7.16-16-16-16H16C7.16 64 0 71.16 0 80v336c0 17.67 14.33 32 32 32h464c8.84 0 16-7.16 16-16v-16c0-8.84-7.16-16-16-16zm-387.2-48h22.4c6.4 0 12.8-6.4 12.8-12.8v-70.4c0-6.4-6.4-12.8-12.8-12.8h-22.4c-6.4 0-12.8 6.4-12.8 12.8v70.4c0 6.4 6.4 12.8 12.8 12.8z\" class=\"\"><\/path><\/svg><\/i> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Loading\" src=\"https:\/\/learningaloud.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/page-views-count\/ajax-loader-2x.gif\" border=0 \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"pvc_clear\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[210,251],"class_list":["post-4115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-docs","tag-microsoft"],"a3_pvc":{"activated":true,"total_views":25,"today_views":0},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1zo8Q-14n","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningaloud.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningaloud.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningaloud.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningaloud.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningaloud.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4115"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/learningaloud.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4116,"href":"https:\/\/learningaloud.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4115\/revisions\/4116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningaloud.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningaloud.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningaloud.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}