Microsoft's Office Web Apps to roll out to Office 365 users in late October

Recently Mary Jo Foley posted the article below ZDNet. 

 Even though Microsoft officials said earlier this year they planned to keep the coming Office Next/Office 2013 deliverables -- the clients, the servers and the services -- in lockstep, it seems some components are arriving earlier than others.

The new release of Office Web Apps will be rolling out to current Office 365 customers near the end of this month, Microsoft officials are confirming. I asked about this after reading a report by Paul Spain of NZ Tech Podcast fame, late last week about the accelerated Office Web Apps timetable.
A note on Microsoft's Office 365 wiki confirmed that the new Office Web Apps are arriving as part of the SharePoint Online Service Update (SU) 4. 
“We update Office 365 with new capabilities on quarterly basis and sometimes more frequently. This is part of our regular cadence of updates," said a Microsoft spokesperson when I asked about the new Office Web Apps' imminent arrival.
Microsoft officials still are not revealing publicly when Microsoft plans to release to manufacturing/release to the Web its Office Next/Office 2013 products, which are what was codenamed "Office 15." They have said, however, that the final version of Office Home & Student RT, which will be "included" with Windows RT-based devices, will begin rolling out to customers between early November 2012 and January 2013. They've also said a touch-enabled Lync unified-communications clientsfor Windows 8 and Windows RT will begin rolling out starting in late October 2012.

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