Office Web Components are being discontinued

The Office Web Components are being discontinued because Microsoft needed a more flexible technology to help customers address the following challenges they faced with owc

• A server-side Excel calculation Engine
• Greater parity with Excel when worksheets are delivered over the web
• The ability to enable spreadsheets to be more scalable and stable when loaded onto a server
• Improved security
• The ability to perform more detailed analysis to improve overall business intelligence.

In order to address these customer challenges the Enterprise Client Access License (CAL) versionMicrosoft Office Sharepoint Server 2007Will include a technology calledExcel servicesThat vertex des:

• A server-side Excel calculation Engine
• The ability to enable browser-based worksheet viewing and interactivity
• Web Service Access to the spreadsheet calculation engine in Excel .*

* Note that this means that excel services has been designed to scale and perform on a server and it is not merely an Excel spreadsheet stored on a server.

For additional information on Excel services please see http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms546696.aspx or this series of Excel blog posts.

Unfortunately, we can't see owc12 anymore. Although office2007 has been released for a long time, we are not very familiar with Excel services.

In addition, for the current version of owc:

For more information, see http://blogs.msdn.com/excel/archive/2006/07/17/668544.aspx
Office Web Components "Roadmap"