Administrator DKT27 Posted July 16, 2012 Administrator Share Posted July 16, 2012 Microsoft has just announced Office 2013 and will be making available a free download of the next platform to Microsoft's productivity suite. Make the jump to learn more as Metro comes to Office. After much excitement, Microsoft has announced Office 2013 and that the new platform will bring the Metro design language to the popular productivity suite. Microsoft made the announcement today in San Francisco and is also announcing that the Office 2013 preview is available for download. As you would imagine, the update brings sweeping enhancements across the board for the new platform as it has been nearly three years since Microsoft last pushed out a major release in 2010. Following in the path of the previous releases, Office 2013 is right on time with the two previous platforms launching in 2007 and 2010. Office at Its Best on Windows 8 Touch everywhere. Office responds to touch as naturally as it does to keyboard and mouse. Swipe your finger across the screen or pinch and zoom to read your documents and presentations. Author new content and access features with the touch of a finger. Inking. Use a stylus to create content, take notes and access features. Handwrite email responses and convert them automatically to text. Use your stylus as a laser pointer when presenting. Color your content and erase your mistakes with ease. New Windows 8 applications. OneNote and Lync represent the first new Windows 8 style applications for Office. These applications are designed to deliver touch-first experiences on a tablet. A new radial menu in OneNote makes it easy to access features with your finger. Included in Windows RT. Office Home and Student 2013 RT, which contains new versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote applications, will be included on ARM-based Windows 8 devices, including Microsoft Surface. Office Is in the Cloud SkyDrive. Office saves documents to SkyDrive by default, so your content is always available across your tablet, PC and phone. Your documents are also available offline and sync when you reconnect. Roaming. Once signed in to Office, your personalized settings, including your most recently used files, templates and even your custom dictionary, roam with you across virtually all of your devices. Office even remembers where you last left off and brings you right back to that spot in a single click. Office on Demand. With a subscription, you can access Office even when you are away from your PC by streaming full-featured applications to an Internet-connected Windows-based PC. New subscription services. The new Office is available as a cloud-based subscription service. As subscribers, consumers automatically get future upgrades in addition to exciting cloud services including Skype world minutes and extra SkyDrive storage. Subscribers receive multiple installs for everyone in the family and across their devices. Office Is Social Yammer. Yammer delivers a secure, private social network for businesses. You can sign up for free and begin using social networking instantly. Yammer offers integration with SharePoint and Microsoft Dynamics. Stay connected. Follow people, teams, documents and sites in SharePoint. View and embed pictures, videos and Office content in your activity feeds to stay current and update your colleagues. People Card. Have an integrated view of your contacts everywhere in Office. The People Card includes presence information complete with pictures, status updates, contact information and activity feeds from Facebook and LinkedIn accounts. Skype. The new Office comes with Skype. When you subscribe, you get 60 minutes of Skype world minutes every month. Integrate Skype contacts into Lync and call or instant message anyone on Skype. Office Unlocks New Scenarios Digital note-taking. Keep your notes handy in the cloud and across multiple devices with OneNote. Use what feels most natural to you — take notes with touch, pen or keyboard, or use them together and switch easily back and forth. Reading and markup. The Read Mode in Word provides a modern and easy-to-navigate reading experience that automatically adjusts for large and small screens. Zoom in and out of content, stream videos within documents, view revision marks and use touch to turn pages. Meetings. PowerPoint features a new Presenter View that privately shows your current and upcoming slides, presentation time, and speaker notes in a single glance. While presenting, you can zoom, mark up and navigate your slides with touch and stylus. Lync includes multiparty HD video with presentations, shared OneNote notebooks and a virtual whiteboard for collaborative brainstorming. Eighty-two-inch touch-enabled displays. 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Administrator DKT27 Posted July 16, 2012 Author Administrator Share Posted July 16, 2012 Microsoft Office 2013 dumps support for Vista, XP Microsoft has just announced Microsoft Office 2013 and that the new platform will not support Vista or XP. The drop of Vista and XP shows that Microsoft is pushing users towards Windows 7 and 8. It should not come as a surprise that Microsoft wants users to upgrade off of older Windows platforms and it looks like they will be using Office to force users to make that transition. If you take a look at the FAQ, Windows 7 or newer is required to run the new version of Office. Microsoft dropping support for Vista is a bit surprising considering how long XP was supported but at the end of the day, Microsoft wants you to upgrade to its latest OS, so dropping support for Vista is a good thing. Microsoft is not shy about wanting you to upgrade off of its legacy products, they previously announced a campaign to kill off IE6. Upgrading to the latest platform also has several security benefits as well and not to mention that in April of 2014, Microsoft will kill support Windows XP. While this requirement will affect some, if you are still holding on to XP, now might be the time to upgrade to Windows 7, or Windows 8 in the near future. :view: View: Original Article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madeinheaven Posted July 16, 2012 Share Posted July 16, 2012 Thank you for the news. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
threejay Posted July 16, 2012 Share Posted July 16, 2012 Regarding the UI and icons: Microsoft has gone mad. This Metro-junk interface is absolutely horrible! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobrPatty Posted July 16, 2012 Share Posted July 16, 2012 Got her downloaded. See what MS has instore for us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heyheyhey007 Posted July 16, 2012 Share Posted July 16, 2012 Thanks for the post. I hope they give it a sleeker look with the finished product it looks too square and plain. I think I'll stick to office 2010 at least until I see the finished office 2013. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sanjoa Posted July 16, 2012 Share Posted July 16, 2012 What a piece of crap. Good about dumping support for XP and Vista. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wenger20 Posted July 18, 2012 Share Posted July 18, 2012 I even don't know how to use all the features of Office 2010 :rolleyes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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