Today, Microsoft officially announced that
SharePoint Online will be receiving an update over the next couple of days. The long-awaited changes include upgrades to
Office Web Apps that improve editing, collaboration and mobile devices. Official support for
Internet Explorer 7 will be ending at the same time, as many of the updated features require functionality only available in
IE 8 or later web browsers.
IE 7 will continue to work with SharePoint Online, just not with the new features.
Here's the full text of the announcement:
| Office Web Apps update improves editing, collaboration and device support; IE7 support endsWithin
the next 24 to 48 hours, we will begin delivering 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. |
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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. |
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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.
- 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.
- 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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End of support for Internet Explorer 7
Internet Explorer 7 is not compatible with the updates to Office Web
Apps. For the best user experience, Office 365 users should use a modern
web browser.Our system reports indicate that you have 1 person in your
organization who connected to Office 365 with Internet Explorer 7
between 01 August 2012 and 01 September 2012. We urge you to upgrade
this user to a current version of Internet Explorer immediately to
preserve the user experience. Instruct this user to run Windows Updateto upgrade the browser.See the Admin Task Wiki for information about support for Internet Explorer 7. |
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With these SharePoint Online updation now I will be finally able to use IE7 which was not possible before. Even, I can notice many other upgrades and new features to which I will be making use of soon.
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