With Office Web Apps and Windows Live SkyDrive you and your team members can rock out a great group project without meeting in person all of the time. What is Windows Live SkyDrive? Windows Live SkyDrive gives you 25 gigabytes of FREE online file storage! Why not cash in on that? Just save your files to a shared folder on SkyDrive and give your team members access. It might feel weird to push a technology choice onto your peers, but they'll thank you for making the project easier. Give it a try. All you need is a Windows Live ID. If you've got a Hotmail account or an Xbox Live account, then you've already got a Windows Live ID. If not, it only takes a few minutes to sign up. If you've already got an account, you can sign in to Windows Live from www.live.com. As long as you're connected to the Internet,
Windows 7 Ultimate Key, you can access your files from anywhere. Plus, with Office Web Apps you can open and edit Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote documents right from the folder. You don't even need the Office program installed on your computer. Haven't used Office Web Apps before? Read this introduction to Office Web Apps. If you want to know what it's like to work on a group project using these free services, watch this short video. In it I'll show you how easy it is to create a SkyDrive folder, upload files, and open files using Office Web Apps. &amp;lt;div&amp;gt;&amp;lt;img alt="DCSIMG" id="DCSIMG" width="1" height="1" src="" mce_src=""/&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt; Office Web Apps are officially supported in Windows Internet Explorer 7 and later, Safari 4 for the Mac, Google Chrome 3, and Firefox 3.5 for Windows, Mac, and Linux. Give it a try and let me know what you think. Did Office Web Apps make collaborating on your group project easier? --Jennifer Bost <div