Microsoft’s preview release of our new Office 365 APIs extends the platform that we introduced in Office 2013 by adding the ability for both websites and native applications to consume Office 365 data.
This is powerful. Now, both web applications as well as native applications running on Windows 8, iOS, Android, and other device platforms can consume Office 365 data by using REST APIs and standard OAuth flows.
This preview release of Office 365 APIs supports a limited number of SharePoint, Exchange, and Windows Azure Active Directory (AD) data sources. But this is only the start of a much larger innovation. Moving forward, we’ll also support additional data sources in SharePoint and Exchange as well as supporting additional services like Yammer.
Whereas the innovation in SharePoint 2013 was having the ability to insert external apps in Office files, the investment now is enabling your applications to consume Office data over the wire using REST/OData for data transport and OAuth for authentications and authorization.
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