By . Daily Mail Reporter . That’s now changed as the Redmond, Washington-based tech . giant recently rebranded the free version of Office Online . easily available through a website. CBSnews.com . reported. The software includes . Word, Outlook, OneNote, PowerPoint, and Excel. Microsoft has relaunched a free version of its popular Office software that is available through a website . Microsoft previously called its Office free version Office Web . Apps. The big problem with that is it used to be only available through its . cloud storage service known as OneDrive, which used to be called SkyDrive. One of the reasons Microsoft may have made the change is . that some consumers were complaining they didn’t have a free version of Office . that could compete with rival Google Docs. And if you find that you’re running out of room on your hard . drive to save all of your Office files, Microsoft allows Office Online viewers . 7 gigabytes of storage space through OneDrive. Additional space is available . for a fee. Microsoft has made other recent changes to Office. It . launched a version of the software for Apple’s iPad. Microsoft also launched a . cheaper version of its subscription-based version of the software known as Office 365 personal for $70. The cheapest version of Office before then was known as . Office 365 for $100, though that could be loaded onto as many as five . computers. An aerial view of Microsoft headquarters in Redmond, Washington .
Microsoft recently relaunched Office Online, which users can access through a website .
For more than a year, Microsoft has had a free version known as Office Web Apps, but was difficult to find .
Microsoft may have made the move to better compete with rival software Google Docs, which is also free .
By . Daily Mail Reporter . That’s now changed as the Redmond, Washington-based tech . giant recently rebranded the free version of Office Online . easily available through a website. CBSnews.com . reported. The software includes . Word, Outlook, OneNote, PowerPoint, and Excel. Microsoft has relaunched a free version of its popular Office software that is available through a website . Microsoft previously called its Office free version Office Web . Apps. The big problem with that is it used to be only available through its . cloud storage service known as OneDrive, which used to be called SkyDrive. One of the reasons Microsoft may have made the change is . that some consumers were complaining they didn’t have a free version of Office . that could compete with rival Google Docs. And if you find that you’re running out of room on your hard . drive to save all of your Office files, Microsoft allows Office Online viewers . 7 gigabytes of storage space through OneDrive. Additional space is available . for a fee. Microsoft has made other recent changes to Office. It . launched a version of the software for Apple’s iPad. Microsoft also launched a . cheaper version of its subscription-based version of the software known as Office 365 personal for $70. The cheapest version of Office before then was known as . Office 365 for $100, though that could be loaded onto as many as five . computers. An aerial view of Microsoft headquarters in Redmond, Washington .
Online . easily available through a website. Microsoft has relaunched a free version of its popular Office software that is available through Office free version Office Web . Apps. The big of the reasons Microsoft may have made the change compete with rival Google Docs. And if you find known as Office 365 personal for $70. The