Microsoft revealed the new Office. The presentation was held in San Francisco near the Moscone Center, where in June a conference for developers spent Goolge. The event was surprisingly chamber - a room of 130 journalists were present. Novelty introduced Microsoft chairman Steve Ballmer.
"This is the most ambitious release of Microsoft Office, which we have ever produced. Today we'll show you a new generation of Office - Office as a service" - Ballmer told the crowd.
The product includes traditional programs - Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Outlook, Publisher and Access. If prior to this, Microsoft has focused primarily on business customers, the recent release of Office tried to adapt to ordinary users. In fact, it is not just Office, and Office 365, which previously could only buy corporate clients on a subscription. The company has released several versions of which are now available to everyone - and by subscription.
Office received a redesigned user interface, adapted to different types of devices, including tablet PCs with touch screen. To update the interface tablet version of the product came with a fair degree of caution. To operate in this mode, press the button in the top toolbar, and then around the icons to increase the free space that is intended to facilitate the touch-navigation. However, many of those who managed to test a product, complain about the unusual control system, so it is likely that in this respect, followed by some additions.
An important change - to connect Microsoft Office to cloud storage SkyDrive. The number of gadgets used by the average user, is constantly growing, so all your settings, documents and history are stored in the cloud, which provides instant synchronization and data access from any device.
"You can store your data on the cloud service, always having access to them through SkyDrive. It gives people the opportunity to work with a variety of devaysov simultaneously. Accessing SkyDrive account can be accessed through Microsoft Live, and if you subscribe to a premium version of Office 365, in You will have, and a significant amount of additional space. But ordinary users, we give 7 GB on a cloud "- said the head of Microsoft.
At the conference, Ballmer repeatedly reiterated that the Microsoft paramount importance is the social aspect of the updated version of Office. It is implemented in the company through the integration of Office Skype. Now users have the opportunity to host a video conference calling and instant messaging, working with the programs of Office.
Another social renewal - function People Card, which allows you to integrate contacts and updates from social networks Facebook and LinkedIn in any of the office applications. Mail, Outlook will work in conjunction with maps Bing. If the email address of a specified, it will be possible to immediately find on the map.
However, the Russian users, this feature is unlikely to be useful - Bing officially went on the domestic market. At the same time the new office is a software interface that allows you to write applications for it. Thus, idle in Russia may well be replaced by Bing Yandex or Mail.Ru. This kind of third-party applications are installed from a digital store, which you can get directly from the "office" programs. In fact, programmers around the world were invited to a new market for them - the market is Microsoft Office.
Office updates will only work on devices running Windows 7 and Windows 8 - support for XP and Vista, the company ruled out. In addition, Microsoft has promised that all the "office" products will be available in tablets with ARM-architecture. Preview the new Office, you can now download from Microsoft. But when the final product will be available, and what is its value in various versions, is still unknown.
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