Using Microsoft Office for Mac 2011

17. Collaborating

This chapter covers collaboration features of Office for Mac 2011.

This chapter tells you about several methods of collaborating that Office for Mac 2011 provides. It covers Microsoft Document Connection and cloud computing, broadcasting a PowerPoint presentation on the Microsoft PowerPoint Broadcast Service, and using Remote Desktop.

Cloud computing is the Internet-based provision of shared resources, software, and information provided to users on demand. Most cloud computing infrastructures are built on servers. SharePoint and SkyDrive are the two Microsoft cloud computing servers, but SharePoint is beyond the scope of this book, so the emphasis in this chapter is on SkyDrive.

Surveying the Collaboration Landscape