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With Microsoft set to rollout an amazing new wave of Office products and services in the weeks ahead, it’s time to turn our attention to how we might best take advantage of these offerings. First up: The ways in which you can personalize the Office applications and have those changes sync across all of your installs on different PCs and devices automatically....More

On the eve of the launch of a major new wave of Microsoft Office products and services, Google has announced a major update to its bare-bones, web-based presentation package Slides. Now it can be used offline, making this service usable on Chromebooks and other computing devices while offline....More

While Office 2013 will provide many benefits over previous versions, Microsoft has highlighted a key advance this week: Its support for multiple languages, including many new languages, via free Language Interface Packs....More

Microsoft announced today that its business customers can now purchase the Office 2013 suites and servers through its volume licensing program. This includes Office 2013, Exchange Server 2013, Lync Server 2013, SharePoint Server 2013, Project 2013 and Visio 2013....More

While the iPad has certain ecosystem advantages over the recently-released Surface with Windows RT, Microsoft’s entry does of course edge out the Apple device in some key areas as well. And one major advantage of the Surface over iPad is that it comes with a fully functional version of Microsoft Office....More

A month ago, I was able to spend a few days using a Windows RT tablet with the preview version of Office 2013 Home & Student 2013 RT, which will come bundled with all RT devices. For some reason, this version of Office is very mysterious to people, but having actually used it, I can only reach one conclusion: It looks and works exactly like Office 2013 on a Windows PC....More

With Office 2013, Microsoft is moving its most dominant product line to an attractive new subscription-based pricing and packaging model. Yes, you’ll be able to acquire Office 2013 the old-fashioned way. But the benefits and pricing of the subscription plans are so attractive you won’t want to....More

If you used the new Office 365 web-based installer to install the Office 2013 Customer Preview on your PC, you’ve experienced the wonders of Click-to-Run: Lightning-fast install times, automatic updating, friendly side-by-side usage with previous Office versions, and seamless integration with the underlying OS. Click-to-run has been around since Office 2010, but in Office 2013 it really comes of age....More

In keeping with Microsoft’s broader embrace of the trend called consumerization of IT, Outlook 2013 now integrates with several social connectors. This technology, which originated as a series of add-ons for Outlook 2010, lets users further blur the line between personal and work relationships by bringing their contacts’ activities and other data from popular social networks into Outlook....More

Microsoft’s Exchange ActiveSync (EAS) technology was originally designed to sync Exchange-based data with mobile devices using standards-based web protocols. But with EAS getting more and more powerful, and providing push-based access to email, contacts, and appointments, Microsoft is now beginning to use it in its Windows-based email clients as well. So in Outlook 2013, you can now connect to any Microsoft account service using EAS instead of legacy connection types....More