After Microsoft’s initial announcement, the forthcoming Google-docs-like Office web apps—”Office Web”—kinda fell off the radar. Today, we get confirmation that the online suite will be free, and that Office 2010 will start semi-private testing today.
Pull up Safari on your iDevice, punch in menu.apple.com, and you’ll get a beautiful web app explaining what’s cooking at the Caffè Macs at five different Apple campuses. Tonight at Infinite Loop: grilled snapper and pork carnitas, plus vegetarian pizza for the Jobs wannabes. [Thanks Tomhut!]
What you are you seeing in these screenshots may seem like a real iPhone application, but it’s not. It’s a web page displayed in full screen, completely out of Safari, behaving and looking exactly as any native iPhone program would do. The best thing: It is not a new feature of the incoming iPhone OS 2.2 update: The secret feature is “hidden” in the current 2.1 version and only requires one thing: HTML code embedded in the web page itself. No iPhone modification is required. If you are browsing this from the iPhone, you can try it yourself very easily:
