New Microsoft Office Customer Preview & Office 365 Features @ One Glance

Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve Ballmer has unveiled the Customer Preview of the new Microsoft Office and its cloud-based brother MS Office 365. On Windows 8, the all new Microsoft Office responds naturally to the touch, has stylus support and has two exclusive new applications called the OneNote and Lync. Whereas on the ARM-based Windows 8, the new versions of new versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote applications can be found in Office Home and Student 2013 RT.

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Taking a look at the cloud features, the new Office saves documents by-default to SkyDrive. With a subscription, you can access Office's full-featured applications through streaming. The famous private social network Yammer, that Microsoft recently acquired, features integration with Microsoft Dynamics and SharePoint that allows following people, teams as well as documents. Are employees feeling all happy? The new Office also comes with Skype. If you choose to integrate Skype contacts with Lync, you get to call or instant message everyone on the list.

More new features includes OneNote that allows Digital Note Taking, while the Read Mode in Word lets you zoom in and out of content, stream videos within documents, view revision marks and use touch to turn pages. How marvelous! The much-needed feature for seminar-delivery comes to PowerPoint. A Presenter View that privately shows your current and upcoming slides, presentation time, and speaker notes in a single glance. That covers a small bundle of the massive set of features offered with the new MS Office.

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