Microsoft bows to Chrome's dominance, delivers Office Online add-on for browser rival

Bowing to the reality that Google's Chrome has become the world's fastest-growing browser -- and by some accounts, the choice in the enterprise -- Microsoft today launched a Chrome add-on for quickly accessing Office Online apps and their documents.

The small extension adds an icon to Chrome that when clicked exposes the most recently-edited documents in OneDrive or OneDrive for Business; lets the user create a new document in the browser-based versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote or Sway; and open locally-stored documents.

While Microsoft has been beating the cross-platform drum company-wide since CEO Satya Nadella took over in early 2014, the recognition that Microsoft's biggest browser rival deserves special treatment was still stunning.

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