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.Microsoft has decided to change the way we think and use Office. It uses the cloud as your default hard drive and gives you the ability to use the same Office program across a number of different devices. It includes sharing in many of the different applications and all of it is designed to integrate with Windows 8 both functionally and visually.
Yesterday’s webcast illustrated how easy it is to shift from device to device and easily access all of your documents and Office applications. You can begin writing a piece on your desktop at work, shift to editing it on your tablet as you ride the train/bus home, and can access it on your Windows Phone 8 device for quick reference. For those who are contemplating purchasing a Windows 8 tablet when they come out, one thing to keep in mind is that the new version of Office was also optimized to work on an ARM processor as well as Intel and AMD. Office Home and Student will come standard with Microsoft’s Windows RT based lower priced Surface tablet.
Office 365 was used to talk about the new emphasis on Office as a service as opposed to a product. The default setting for saving any document whether it was created in Word, OneNote or PowerPoint is Microsoft’s cloud service SkyDrive. You can save it to your device as well. Of course this means that you have to login to Office and SkyDrive to be able to use them as cloud services. This can be a problem when Office has an outage like it did last August.
This new version of office allows you to enter information in a variety of ways. You can use a keyboard with a regular computer or a stylus or your finger, called “Inking”, with a tablet or Windows Phone 8. Skype is integrated into Outlook and sharing can be done across all of the applications so that you can collaborate in OneNote or Excel when conferencing using Lync. When using a touch screen you can quickly move text and objects around on the screen so that you can reposition pictures within a document. You can pinch to zoom in and out.
The new functions and features are numerous:
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. Conduct more engaging meetings, presentations and lessons, whether in person or virtually, with these multitouch and stylus-enabled displays from Perceptive Pixel.
While the full lineup of offerings and pricing plans will be announced in the fall, Ballmer discussed three new Office 365 subscription services. When available, each new subscription offer will include the new 2013 editions of the Office applications — Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Outlook, Publisher and Access. In addition, subscribers will receive future rights to version upgrades as well as per-use rights across up to five PCs or Macs and mobile devices. The three new editions will be the following:
Office 365 Home Premium — designed for families and consumers. This service also includes an additional 20 GB of SkyDrive storage and 60 minutes of Skype world minutes per month.
Office 365 Small Business Premium — designed for small businesses. This service also includes business-grade email, shared calendars, website tools and HD webconferencing.
Office 365 ProPlus — designed for enterprise customers who want advanced business capabilities and the flexibility to deploy and manage in the cloud.
The customer preview is available at office.com/preview.
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