Microsoft Office 2013 all Set to come early next year

The scene of Office 2013 release to manufacturing marks crowd of party streamers and balloons everywhere. The completion event swings back Microsoft attention in respect of its massive roll out taking place within few months. The availability in large scale shall be requiring waiting period during the first quarter of 2013. There are some companies prepared for big volume licensing are likely to get the delivery much before expected in middle of November or by 1st December, these companies have to embrace software assurance plan.

There is an easy path thought of by Microsoft, people who shall be buying Office 2010, shall have the option to receive Office 2013 copy free.

The upgraded software may not be cheaply available for people who are not willing to buy Windows RT Tablet, which can be the easy solution for the puzzle.

Looking at the past reveals that, 3 years before Microsoft had unveiled new version of Office

It’s been about three years since Microsoft unveiled a new version of Office, and particularly with Windows 8 is just few months far it had become due for upgrade.

It was now that Redmond participated in unveiling of Office 2013, the company shall show the preview stage till the final version is ready for sale. The news is that nothing is added to its Word, question is how to access the files.

With the new version in place company is planning for model with subscription feature and the office files shall have tie-up with the Microsoft ID. After completion of the signing up, it is possible to down load the desktop apps to devices with restriction on the number of devices. With the arrival of Windows 8, the settings, files of SkyDrive and even the place where work was left off shall follow you from the device to device. The possibility is that the files saving shall be taking place in the cloud.

This version shall be tablet friendly in contrast to the previous editions. Aided by the touch mode there shall be widening of the space existing between objects on the screen affecting flattening of the menu.

In Word and PowerPoint, there shall be also read mode, which shall be turning the document in full screen edition, the pages of which can be swiped just like e-book and digital magazine.

There are many updates included by Microsoft like editing of PDF and in case of PowerPoint Presenter View taking place behind the scene.

General look and feel

Some people had been thinking that Microsoft shall do complete overhaul of Office prior to Windows 8 release. Consider the fact that people in the past survived transition to the Ribbon menus of Office 2007, there shall be nothing to be apprehensive about it.

The Ribbon in fact is still cornerstone of Office. Its experience reflects visual metaphor permeates to Excel, Word, Outlook and all other application included in the suite.

Cloud integration

The ability to save in cloud environment is definitely not a new Office feature, but the thing is that it shall be the first time using SkyDrive as the default to save instead of the C drive.

There shall be support to the SkyDrive available, hitting save shall be visible the progress bar at the bottom shall also appear.

Touch mode

Microsoft has carried out few very subtle alterations to UI, which are of course very important. The presence of touch mode on various applications the things become more finger friendly.

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