Only Windows 7 and Windows 8 users need apply. They’ll be based on our own research and use of Office, not warmed over versions of Microsoft hype. We’ll be publlishing detailed articles on Office 2013 features in the days and months ahead. It may be that Office 2013 will make sense for Windows 8 users with the yet-unseen touch devices – but for people using a computer right now in the real world (not Microsoft’s fantasy land) it’s hard to see much worth the price of upgrading.
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Naturally Skydrive integration will work best with Windows devices so anyone straying from the Microsoft fold (like the millions of Apple and Android users) will have to put up with second best. However there are privacy issues that are a serious concern. It’s something that large companies and Small Business Server users have enjoyed for years. Same goes for sharing Office settings between computers. Integration with Skydrive and the ability to ‘see’ the same document on multiple devices is a great step forward for individual and small organizations.
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Microsoft tacitly acknowledges that with the new Full Screen Mode. Laptop and netbook users will likely hate Office 2013’s grab of valuable screen space, some of which is pointless for non-touch users, which is most of us. The whole look seems more like change for the sake of it rather than an improvement to benefit users. The new ‘flat’ look for tabs and ribbons makes it harder to visually separate items. The interface changes range from the petty (the Office 2013 ‘look’) to screen gobbling menus which may make sense on a touch screen but are a nuisance for most of us. ‘Traditional’ download or disk sales of Office 2013 will be available to those who look for it. Office 2013 will be sold mostly as a service bundled with Office 365 hosting. The hyped major changes are in the way Office 2013 will be sold – with a concerted effort towards buying Office on a subscription basis – something that Microsoft has desperately wanted for over a decade.
That’s good but not enough to justify paying for Office 2013. Many of the ‘new’ features are simply integration of existing Microsoft products like Skydrive and Skype. Office 2013 has more to do with advancing Microsoft’s corporate aims than providing benefits for customers now. (What we say now we say with regret since we like Office and always have.) We’ll be publishing detailed articles on Office 2013 features in the days and months ahead. Sure there are some new features but, after looking at Office 2013 for some time, nothing that leaps out as being ‘gee whiz’ let alone ‘must have’.
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Instead we take our time and check out the new software and features ourselves – a quaint and almost old-fashioned approach but there you have it.įrankly – there’s not a lot. We don’t rely on the glib promises and cozy half-truths sent out by Microsoft. As you’d expect has been and will be looking at Office 2013 in detail. Office 2013 is now available for public preview. What you need to know about Office 2013 and getting the preview.