Ballmer Unveils Online Version of Office Software

June 28, 2011 at 10:02 am PT

Microsoft Corp. unveiled an online version of its Office software Tuesday, taking aim at rival products from Google Inc. and others as it looks to sate customers’ appetite for Web-based software.

The launch of Office 365 takes the Redmond, Wash., company further into cloud computing, the delivery of software and computing power as a service over the Internet. Proponents of that approach have argued that it can reduce technology costs and free staff to focus on company-specific projects rather than chores such as upgrading software or dealing with servers.

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