TRY Microsoft Office FREE

Now you can try Office 2007 from Microsoft for free. They have started a new website with free download of office. This is a 60 days version and different versions are vailiable.
You can select the office suite according to your need like home, student, etc.
Although this is 60 days version but this would allow you to take advantages and feel of new Office.
So Go to http://us20.trymicrosoftoffice.com/
and download...

Web Office Widgets

Web Office Widgets by ZDNet's Richard MacManus -- Now that office software is becoming a big part of the Web landscape, we're starting to see widgets (i.e. mini web apps) appear that have office functionality. The personalized start page Pageflakes has just introduced a couple of new office "flakes", which is their term for widgets. The new ones are a Calendar Flake and [...]

Google Office now a reality

The new combined Writely and Google Spreadsheets interface has just gone live, under the name Google Docs & Spreadsheets. The Writely.com site now re-directs to http://docs.google.com and the Writely brand has been replaced by the usual no-frills Google brand. The homepage allows you to tag and sort your files. There are also common functions, like import and export. The new doc and spreadsheet pages now look almost identical, with similar tabs and layout.
This seems to be a consolidation step towards Google Office which is take shape in Google labs. Maybe you will see some more applications being added to the suite.
So now work online .........