Microsoft introduced Office 2013 Preview, version of the Customer Preview available for download

Microsoft announced a new version of Office, which is now at the stage of Customer Preview. Last updated Microsoft Office, recall, was released in 2010.

 

CEO Steve Ballmer unveiled a new version of office suite as the most ambitious: it is designed to work with the upcoming Windows 8 provides for integration with social services and storage of documents in the "cloud." Now the company calls the product is basically just «Microsoft Office», not bothering to additional identifiers, in extreme cases - «the new Office». Just like Apple.

 

Integration with the "cloud" service SkyDrive has become the main "chip" of the new Office. All documents and personal user settings will be automatically duplicated on the remote server. This will provide access to them from any Internet-connected gadget. Also, applications are optimized for use with touch and gestures, a stylus, mouse and keyboard, that they support all the new devices based on Windows, including tablets.

 

Despite the "grind" for the eighth running, the next version of Office will be compatible with Windows 7. Microsoft has simplified the new Office to work on computers and touch tablets, providing him a close integration with social services. In the new Office will be installed Skype, which Microsoft bought for $ 8.5 billion last year. It is also a function of an office suite supplemented People Card, integrating office applications in the contacts from Facebook and LinkedIn.

 

Referring to the upcoming presentation of Windows 8, Ballmer compared it with Windows 95, which was a breakthrough for its time. According to Ballmer, office applications Word, Excel, PowerPoint is used by more than one billion computers worldwide.

A complete line of new Microsoft Office will be announced this fall, but then be told the exact prices. But now Steve Ballmer has announced three new services on a subscription Office 365 - Office 365 Home Premium, Office 365 Small Business Premium and Office 365 ProPlus. At launch, they will receive fresh version of 2013 Office applications - Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Outlook, Publisher and Access.

Try a preliminary version of Microsoft Office "Customer Preview"