Microsoft has rebranded its Office Web Apps, basically an online version of its Office suite, as Office Online.
The new, less confusing name (Microsoft says customers were befuddled by the use of "Apps" in the previous name), comes hand in hand with Office.com, a new starting page for the company's online productivity suite.
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The new site makes it really simple to find and use Office Online tools — click on Word, Outlook, People, OneNote, PowerPoint, Calendar, Excel or OneDrive, sign in with a Microsoft account (or create a new one), and you're good to go.
No new features have been added to the mix, but Microsoft did add a lot of new document templates, as well as a dropdown (in the upper left hand corner) that lets you switch between apps on the fly.
The rebranding comes one day after Microsoft transitioned SkyDrive into OneDrive, also included as part of Office Online. Though that particular name change was caused by Microsoft losing a legal dispute with Sky Broadcasting in the UK, it does fit nicely into the new branding.
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