Free Microsoft Office Online Released Next Year

Microsoft is planning to offer a free Office online version. It is said that the new web-based Microsoft Office will be available next year.

The web-based Microsoft Office will not have all the features that is included in the desktop version. With the upcoming Office 2010, Microsoft plans to have features that allows users to edit video in PowerPoint and manipulate images in Word (this features will not be available in the free Office)

Microsoft has fired its latest salvo at Google, announcing a free web-based version of its Office software.

Office 2010 will include lightweight versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote when it ships next year.

The new web offering will compete with Google’s free online Docs suite launched three years ago.

Last week Google took aim at Windows with news of a free operating system while in June Microsoft introduced a new search engine called Bing, more