SharePoint Team Web Site features available without MS Office, only a Web browser with no versions of Office 2000, Office XP, Microsoft Office Web Components or a free Microsoft Office Viewer/Converter installed.

In this environment a web visitor can still perform all of the browser-based features of SharePoint Team Web Sites.  But, unfortunately, a web visitor cannot:

• Create new Microsoft Office documents using the options available on the SharePoint web site
   
• Edit existing documents on the SharePoint site via the SharePoint 'real-time' editing features
  
  Notes: For editing non-MS Office documents and files, the files can be downloaded, edited and re-uploaded to achieve this purpose)
   
• Import lists from Excel
   
• Import or Export Outlook Contact information or Calendar information into their computer
  
  Notes: A user can still print out contact and calendar information, thus allowing a certain level of participation in the Team site.  Missing is the ultra-handy features of automated synching of calendar and contact information with Outlook amongst your Team site users.  Sorry!
   
• Use the SharePoint web features to edit or save changes to any Microsoft Office document.
  
  Notes: Viewing these documents is still possible via the Microsoft Office document viewer plug-in for Internet Explorer.  At the time of this writing, the web browser plug-in to view Office documents is a free download available at the Microsoft web site.