If you are curious and eager to try out Office Web Apps, after reading our review, you have to sign up here. Then you have to wait for the invitation to come. But, (once signed up) there is another way to try.

Now this works if you are already in the Office 2010 Tech Preview, but hey you never know, it might if you aren’t too…just follow these steps...

If you’ve been following the tech world lately, Office Web Apps Technical Preview is officially released to selected testers within Windows Live SkyDrive today. (And yes, that is the official name now, so much for trying to find a new “cooler” name for it before.) At the moment, it only supports English and Japanese languages, but it is expected that more languages will be available by the time it’s released. Office Web Apps make full use of the 25GB of storage space in SkyDrive, and thus makes it completely separate from Office Live Workspace. However, it is anticipated that Office Live Workspace will be replaced by Office Web Apps by the time it gets released.

One thing to note for this Technical Preview release is that testers can only create and edit files using Excel and PowerPoint Web Apps – documents can only be viewed in the Word Web App, but you won’t be able to create or edit them in this release. Additionally, OneNote files won’t be available to be viewed nor edited until a later release, despite it being available in the “New” menu in SkyDrive:

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The SkyDrive  team blog announced a couple of weeks back about the updates that were coming, and now they’re here.

From the announcement post:

Here are a few things you’ll find on your shiny new SkyDrive:

• 25 GB of free online storage
• Available in 6 more regions and 13 more languages
• Download entire folders as Zip files (limited release)
• Gorgeous online slide show for your photos
• And much, much more!

So those are some of the highlights, let’s take a closer look.

The first thing to notice is the unified banner at the top for all the Live services (Home, People, SkyDrive):

The initial layout has also changed when you first sign into SkyDrive, showing your most recent folders, as well as a What’s New section, that you will have seen on home.live.com, only this What’s New is more relevant to SkyDrive: