The apps a user downloads "go with" the documents with which they are associated. It also could be hosted on a vendor's on-premises server, on Amazon, CloudStack, or any other public or private cloud site.Īs a result of this pointer/Web structure, apps can follow users when they are signed into Office. That doesn't mean the app must be hosted in Windows Azure, though, of course, it can be. All that gets "embedded" in these new apps is a pointer to wherever an app is hosted. In the Apps for Office and Apps for SharePoint context, "via the Web" means, very simply, that apps be able to talk OAuth, REST and other Web protocols. While VBA, VSTO, macros and other legacy Office development concepts and conventions will still work with the coming versions of Office and SharePoint, Jones said, the way of the future for Office developers is via the Web. No more using VBA or VSTO or macros if you want your app to be available via the new Office and SharePoint Stores. This new model - complete with new Office and SharePoint Stores for marketing/selling/deploying apps from Microsoft and third-party developers - is "the most significant thing we've done with the (Office) platform in 15 years" since the introduction of Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), said Brian Jones, Group Program Manager on the Office Solutions Framework team.įirst things first: Developers who want to build these new apps - and take home 80 percent of the revenues for paid ones (with Microsoft keeping the other 20 percent) - need to think different. That the Office team has adopted with its coming products.
This is the crux of what Microsoft officials mean when they talk about the new "cloud app model" In the new Office 2013 and SharePoint 2013 worlds, add-ins are passe.
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