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Last time I tried this, after reading something microsoft wrote that specifically mentioned tablets, I wasted an hour trying to hack office web apps to run, then finally got a message asking me to install silverlight on an ipad.

So pardon me if this seems rude, but do you have an actual web office suite, or is this more bullshit?

Thanks. MS office has a great ui, and i'm looking forward to try a web version of it if such a thing ever exists.

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It doesn't work on an iPad yet. It's our first web Office release, it's still a little rough, but it's definitely something we're putting a lot of engineering work behind to improve.

However, you don't actually need Silverlight to use it (I'm not sure what they're using it for), I've used it on Chrome in Ubuntu and it worked just as well. Any new'ish browser should work.

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