Microsoft Office 2013, the new flavor of the application comes with a new, intuitive design, which has been developed to work great with touch, stylus, and mouse and keyboard.
The new Office 2013 was announced with support for Microsoft’s Windows platform, and can be used on a variety of devices, including tablet PCs.
Moreover, the application was conceived so that it would provide users with a great experience on touch devices that run under Windows 8.
On top of that, the new Office 2013 was designed to be more social, and comes with support for new scenarios related to reading, note-taking, meetings and communications.
Kept connected to cloud services at all times, the new application version comes with SkyDrive integration, saving files to this location by default, while also featuring Skype, providing users with 60 Skype world minutes each month.
On devices running under Windows 8, the application can deliver the best experience possible, Microsoft notes. Some of the main features the new Office 2013 delivers on Windows 8 include:
Touch everywhere. Office responds to touch as naturally as it does to keyboard and mouse. Swipe your finger across the screen or pinch and zoom to read your documents and presentations. Author new content and access features with the touch of a finger.
Inking. Use a stylus to create content, take notes and access features. Handwrite email responses and convert them automatically to text. Use your stylus as a laser pointer when presenting. Color your content and erase your mistakes with ease.
New:
1. Hidden Ribbon
Personally, I like the ribbon interface, and I’m glad that Microsoft is extending that same functionality across virtually every product it makes. But, many people don’t appreciate it like I do, and even though I’m a fan I’d still like to work on a less cluttered workspace sometimes.
Thurrott reports that Office 2013 continues the legacy of the ribbon UI, but that it is hidden by default. He points out that the move probably has something to do with accommodating the simplicity of the Metro interface.
2. Touch Mode
Microsoft is jumping into the tablet game with Windows 8–with both traditional Intel/AMD-based architecture, as well as Windows on ARM (WOA) for ARM-based tablet hardware. One of the defining elements of tablets is the lack of a physical keyboard, and the dependence on a touchscreen interface for multi-gesture navigation.
Office 2013 applications have a Touch Mode button to make the software easier to use with a touchscreen device. According to Thurrott, Touch Mode enlarges the ribbon buttons and other controls, and spaces things out more so you can swipe and tap more accurately with your fingers.
3. Office Marketplace
You can’t develop anything these days without launching some sort of app store, and Office 2013 won’t be an exception to that rule. Microsoft is planning the Office Marketplace as a resource for users to find extensions and tools to expand the capabilities of the Office software, and customize it to work the way you need it to.
4. Password Protected Change Tracking
As a writer, I love being able to track changes within a document. It makes it much easier to follow feedback and comments, and to be able to see what was added, deleted, or changed, from the original. However, anyone with access to the file can accept changes or delete comments, and the tracking will be gone.
Word 2013, the Office 2013 version of Microsoft Word, allows you to password protect change tracking so that only you—or someone with the designated password—can delete those changes.
5. Weather Bar
Outlook 2013 sports a weather bar in Calendar mode. Obviously the weather updates can only predict so far into the future–usually a week to 10 days tops–but, now you can have at-a-glance access to the predicted weather conditions on a given day to help you plan out your week.
6. Inline Replies
Following the lead of the Office Web Apps version of Outlook, Outlook 2013 will no longer pop open a new window to reply to an email message. Thurrott says, “Now, replies happen inline by default, and in the area normally reserved for the reading pane.”
System Requirements:
- Computer and processor: 1 Ghz or greater x86/x64 Processor with SSE2 instruction set
- Memory: 1 GB RAM (32 Bit) /2 GB RAM (64 Bit)
- Hard disk: 3.5 GB free disk space
- Operating System: Windows 7 or newer, either 32-bit or 64-bit; Windows 2008R2 or newer with .Net 3.5 or greater. It isn’t possible to install on a PC running Windows XP or Vista. To use with Windows 8 you must be running the Release Preview version or higher. Get the Release Preview.
- Graphics: Graphics hardware acceleration requires DirectX10 graphics card and 1024 x 576 resolution
Download:
- Microsoft Office Pro Plus 2013 x32 Consumer Preview With Serial | 640 MB
- Microsoft Office Pro Plus 2013 x64 Consumer Preview With Serial | 702 MB
- Serial : Y89N6-KWWJX-YHFVP-DWMGK-XKR9J
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