At the Professional Developers Conference 2008, it was revealed that Microsoft Office 14 for the web will run on operating systems other than Windows. This, of course, includes the Mac and Linux based operating systems.
Although precise details of how cross platform functionality will be achieved, this is a principal goal of the new Office 14 Web applications.
Demonstrations had previously been given using Internet Explorer 8 and Mozilla Firefox 3 on Windows 7 machines. However, the demo used documents and spreadsheets stored on Office Live Workspace - a service not available to users of Office 2008 on the Mac. Although a plugin to enable Mac support is reportedly under development, the tool is not yet supported.
Confusion abounds as spokesperson Scott Massey states that the current beta of Office Live Workspace is “currently accessible on a Mac via Firefox.” The experience for Mac users isn’t identical to that for Windows users, though “Mac users can work with Office Live Workspace as a file store today,” he said.
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