Today, the apps are receiving their first big update to achieve that goal with the addition of a feature that's long been a core of Google's App experience: real-time co-authoring.

Microsoft also plans to beef up the authoring and editing features in Office Web Apps. Meanwhile, the move to bring Office Web Apps to Android tablets will intensify the competition with Google Drive.

You can access the Office Web Apps for free from Microsoft’s SkyDrive. The biggest change, though, is that the Save button is gone. The previous incarnation of “real-time” co-authoring in ...

Real-time co-authoring has been possible on the desktop-installed versions of Office since 2010, but richer collaboration capabilities have been missing from its stripped down web version.

Microsoft has added a new capability to its Word Web app to enable document co-authoring for consumers accessing the app via SkyDrive. Written by Mary Jo Foley, Senior Contributing Editor July 7 ...

Microsoft today announced the availability of co-authoring in its Word web application. Yes, until now, the Word web app couldn’t do this. And people wonder why Google Docs has such a following.

Microsoft today released a sneak peek of how Office Web Apps real-time co-authoring will work across Windows, Android, and iOS devices. Unfortunately, the company still doesn’t have a date for ...

A Microsoft Office Web Apps blog post announces, “Building on the collaboration features already available in Word 2010 and Word for Mac 2011, co-authoring in the Word Web App on SkyDrive helps ...

Microsoft responded with its own significant updates to the company’s Web-based Office applications after a major, free update to Apple’s iWork productivity suite for Mac, iOS and Web.

“We’ll introduce real time co-authoring in the Office Web Apps so that all file authors will automatically see presence and edits from others as they happen without needing to refresh. This is ...

Real-time co-authoring Co-authoring capabilities are available across all Office Web Apps and the Office desktop applications that allow multiple editors to work on a single document at the same time.