Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer unveiled the latest edition of Microsoft Office on Monday in San Francisco. It is said to be the most ambitious update release of the Software. The Office Suite applications have been redesigned to make the most of Windows 8 operating system, work with mobile devices and operate in the cloud. Let’s take a look on the top 12 features of the new Microsoft Office:
1. Touch everywhere
Touch feature makes office apps more modern and spontaneous. PowerPoint, Word and others respond to touch like they do to keyboard and mouse. Functions like swiping, pinching, zooming and tapping makes working on documents an amazing experience.
2. Inking
A stylus can be used to write content on the apps which automatically get converted into text. So, making notes, writing emails gets easier than ever. Coloring and erasing also gets a lot simpler. The stylus can be used as a laser pointer while showing presentations.
3. New Windows 8 applications
Applications like Lync and new OneNote are first Windows 8 style applications which are designed to deliver touch-first experiences on a tablet. OneNote allows you to keep your notes handy in the cloud and across multiple devices. It also lets you snap a picture from a paper, crop a part of it and drag and drop it. With Lync which is a communications platform you can drag and drop someone from the contact list into a live meeting, drop a presentation into the shared canvas and draw on the presentation with a touch screen device.
4. Included in Windows RT
Home and Student edition of the new Office with new versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote applications will be included in Microsoft’s tablet Surface and also in other tablets running on Windows RT.
5. SkyDrive
The documents created on the new Office will be saved automatically in Microsoft’s cloud storage SkyDrive. You will be able to access all your documents regardless of which machine you are using anywhere in the world. The documents you created elsewhere will also be updated on your PC when you sync it with SkyDrive connecting to the internet.
6. Roaming
Not only this, your personal settings, recent files, templates and custom dictionary roam with you everywhere and you can access them by signing in to Office. You can even start your work from the point you left in some other PC.
7. New subscription services
With the new Office you will get upgrades to exciting cloud services which includes Skype world minutes and extra storage on SkyDrive. Customers also get multiple installs for their family across their devices.
8. People Card
People Card helps you to see the integrated view of all your contacts in all the Office Applications with their Facebook and LinkedIn profile pictures, status updates, contact information and activity feeds. This feature will certainly turn the new Microsoft Office 2013 into a Professional social platform.
9. Reading and markup
The read mode provides an all new experience in reading documents like a book on all devices which is very easy to navigate. This feature enables documents to automatically adjust with different available screen sizes. You can easily zoom in and zoom out, insert bookmarks, stream videos within documents and use touch to turn pages.
10. Integrated Skype
The new Office comes integrated with Skype. The subscribed customers get 60 minutes of Skype world minutes every month. Skype contacts can be integrated into Lync and anyone can be called or instant messaged from within the Office applications.
11. Yammer
Yammer is a social network which Microsoft recently acquired. A free sign up on it brings socializing into Office. It is also integrated to SharePoint and Microsoft Dynamics. You can stay connected with colleagues, people, teams, documents and sites in SharePoint, viewing and adding pictures, videos and Office content in activity feeds.
12. Meetings
New MS Office comes with a new Presenter View that privately shows your current and upcoming slides, presentation time, and speaker notes in a single glance. You can also do collaborative brainstorming with Lync and OneNote. It also comes with new clock and timer so you don’t go overtime.
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While the new Office will be released later this year, three subscription models have been announced:
1. Office 365 Home Premium: designed for families and consumers.
2. Office 365 Small Business Premium: designed for small businesses.
3. Office 365 Pro Plus: designed for enterprise customers.
1. Touch everywhere
Touch feature makes office apps more modern and spontaneous. PowerPoint, Word and others respond to touch like they do to keyboard and mouse. Functions like swiping, pinching, zooming and tapping makes working on documents an amazing experience.
2. Inking
A stylus can be used to write content on the apps which automatically get converted into text. So, making notes, writing emails gets easier than ever. Coloring and erasing also gets a lot simpler. The stylus can be used as a laser pointer while showing presentations.
3. New Windows 8 applications
Applications like Lync and new OneNote are first Windows 8 style applications which are designed to deliver touch-first experiences on a tablet. OneNote allows you to keep your notes handy in the cloud and across multiple devices. It also lets you snap a picture from a paper, crop a part of it and drag and drop it. With Lync which is a communications platform you can drag and drop someone from the contact list into a live meeting, drop a presentation into the shared canvas and draw on the presentation with a touch screen device.
4. Included in Windows RT
Home and Student edition of the new Office with new versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote applications will be included in Microsoft’s tablet Surface and also in other tablets running on Windows RT.
5. SkyDrive
The documents created on the new Office will be saved automatically in Microsoft’s cloud storage SkyDrive. You will be able to access all your documents regardless of which machine you are using anywhere in the world. The documents you created elsewhere will also be updated on your PC when you sync it with SkyDrive connecting to the internet.
6. Roaming
Not only this, your personal settings, recent files, templates and custom dictionary roam with you everywhere and you can access them by signing in to Office. You can even start your work from the point you left in some other PC.
7. New subscription services
With the new Office you will get upgrades to exciting cloud services which includes Skype world minutes and extra storage on SkyDrive. Customers also get multiple installs for their family across their devices.
8. People Card
People Card helps you to see the integrated view of all your contacts in all the Office Applications with their Facebook and LinkedIn profile pictures, status updates, contact information and activity feeds. This feature will certainly turn the new Microsoft Office 2013 into a Professional social platform.
9. Reading and markup
The read mode provides an all new experience in reading documents like a book on all devices which is very easy to navigate. This feature enables documents to automatically adjust with different available screen sizes. You can easily zoom in and zoom out, insert bookmarks, stream videos within documents and use touch to turn pages.
10. Integrated Skype
The new Office comes integrated with Skype. The subscribed customers get 60 minutes of Skype world minutes every month. Skype contacts can be integrated into Lync and anyone can be called or instant messaged from within the Office applications.
11. Yammer
Yammer is a social network which Microsoft recently acquired. A free sign up on it brings socializing into Office. It is also integrated to SharePoint and Microsoft Dynamics. You can stay connected with colleagues, people, teams, documents and sites in SharePoint, viewing and adding pictures, videos and Office content in activity feeds.
12. Meetings
New MS Office comes with a new Presenter View that privately shows your current and upcoming slides, presentation time, and speaker notes in a single glance. You can also do collaborative brainstorming with Lync and OneNote. It also comes with new clock and timer so you don’t go overtime.
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Rapidsoftsystems-- A software and Hardware development Caompany, USA
While the new Office will be released later this year, three subscription models have been announced:
1. Office 365 Home Premium: designed for families and consumers.
2. Office 365 Small Business Premium: designed for small businesses.
3. Office 365 Pro Plus: designed for enterprise customers.
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