Microsoft on Monday officially announced Office 2013

At Monday, July 16, Microsoft will introduce a new Office 2013 productivity suite, the newspaper USA Today, citing anonymous sources. The updated software has been available since January this year a small group of testers. Now there is only a technical preview version of the new package, whereas by the end of the summer is expected to release a public beta build.

Programs from the developed product (featured as Office 2013 or Office 15) will be significantly redesigned user interface, including those adapted for devices with touch screens. Users can manage them as using the mouse and keyboard, and an electronic pen or finger.

As of Office 2013 will include a new application called Moorea: it should become the "center of navigating through documents, photographs and images." In addition, the new "office" persistently accompanies and another rumor: that there will be a iPad-version of the package that will support native Tablet version of Word, Excel and PowerPoint. Last year, Microsoft has already released, OneNote for the iPad.

Earlier it was reported that the preliminary (Consumer Preview) version of Office 15 will be released before the end of July. Now this information to confirm the sources of USA Today.

Many analysts believe that Office 2013 will be released in a few months after the debut of Windows 8, that is, at the end of 2012 or early 2013.