CloudOn's virtual Office moves from the app to the browser

CloudOn, whose apps for iOS and Android devices provide Microsoft Office where Microsoft doesn?t, is breaking into the browser.

CloudOn said Tuesday that its virtualized copy of Microsoft Office 2010 will now run inside Google Chrome and Apple?s Safari browser as a Web app, with support for Mozilla Firefox and Microsoft?s Internet Explorer coming in a future release. It also will beef up its sharing capabilities, launching the app environment if a user shares a document through the service.

CloudOn?s premise is simple: Users have been able to create, edit, and share Microsoft Excel, Word, and PowerPoint files for the past year and a half. Until now, that?s been restricted to apps for the iPad and iPhone, plus Android phones and tablets. While Microsoft has released Office Mobile for the iPhone as well as Android phones, the company has inexplicably ignored tablets?and tied Office Mobile to Office 365 subscriptions, to boot. That?s left the door open for companies like CloudOn to exploit the vulnerability.

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CloudOn?s new Web app allows users to edit Word and other documents without the need to download an app.

The problem that CloudOn has faced has been threefold. First, simply trying to create and edit rich documents within the relatively small confines of a smartphone screen has proven difficult, as a PCWorld assessment demonstrated. Second, some of its app users have complained of an odd bug where CloudOn would consistently drop the first letter of words (which others noted may have been tied to another app, SwiftKey). And finally, others have complained that the CloudOn apps are simply slow and laggy, even on robust mobile smartphones.

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