New Office Web Apps features coming in a service update for SharePoint Online

Office Web Apps update improves editing, collaboration and device support
We will soon deliver a service update of new features to SharePoint Online. Organizations on Office 365 will receive this update seamlessly. However, individual users who are still running Internet Explorer 7 may have a diminished user experience after the update.

New features in Office Web Apps
Using web-based versions of Word, PowerPoint, Excel and OneNote you can view, edit, and work together on Office documents from nearly anywhere. And with the latest update, you’ll get more editing and formatting controls, co-authoring support across the web apps and expanded device support, including editing from tablets. Learn about the new features.

What to expect during the service update
There are three things you may encounter during the planned maintenance period between 07 November 2012 and 14 November 2012. We will send another email 24-48 hours before the period begins as a reminder.

1. There may be moments when administrative functions (such as granting permissions or creating new document libraries) will be temporarily disabled. These should be brief, but could last up to 30 minutes.
2. New documents that are added to SharePoint between 07 November 2012 and 14 November 2012 won’t be indexed for searching during the maintenance period. Indexing will resume on 14 November 2012, and documents that were added during the maintenance period will be indexed at that time.

SharePoint content will be read-only for up to 30 minutes. This will only happen once.

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