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Many Office 2013 applications now feature a formal Start experience that provides quick access to document templates and recently accessed documents....More

While Office 2013 offers a visually attractive new take on Microsoft’s venerable office productivity suite, some may be put off by the animations that appear across each of the applications. The worst, possibly, is a typing animation effect in Microsoft Word that can be distracting to those who spend a lot of time in this application. Fortunately, you can disable animations in Office 2013 if you know the trick....More

Office 365 Home Premium is one of the most intriguing and innovative pieces of the entire Office 365 puzzle. It is comprised of what at first appears to be contradictions: An Office 365 subscription aimed not at businesses but at consumers. A version of the venerable Office productivity suite that is delivered as a service, from the cloud, and can be installed on up to five PCs. An additional 20 GB of SkyDrive storage. And 60 minutes of Skype credit per month for anywhere-in-the-world calling. What?!...More

Microsoft will deliver two Metro-style apps for Windows 8 as part of its Office 2013 wave of solutions and one of them, OneNote, is now freely available in the Windows Store in Preview form....More

Office 2013 is a major upgrade over its predecessor, with a new Metro-like user interface and a number of other features you’ll find in various applications in the productivity suite. Here, you’ll find a rundown of the features that are common to many Office 2013 applications....More

Because I spend more time in Word than any other Office application, I was very curious to see whether Microsoft could improve on this already-excellent word processor. I shouldn’t have worried: Word 2013 is a solid upgrade that offers impressive new and improved features for both reading and editing....More

Millions of people around the world rely on Microsoft Outlook to deliver a daily dashboard of their work and personal activities, email, and connections with friends, family, coworkers, and others. For Office 2013, Outlook integrates deeply Microsoft technologies like Exchange ActiveSync (EAS), Hotmail, and Social Connector....More

To date, Office 365 has offered businesses cloud-hosted Exchange, SharePoint, and Lync services and, in the higher-end tiers, downloadable versions of the Office 2010 Professional Plus productivity suite. For Office 2013, Office 365 is branching out considerably and will now come in versions for home users and businesses of all sizes. And each version will include Office desktop software....More

Microsoft today opened up a new blog, Office Next, to begin the discussion about the coming wave of Office 2013 products. And while the first post doesn’t give any indication when the eagerly awaited first preview will drop, reports from around the web suggest it’s imminent....More

Ahead of the expected June release of the Office 15 Beta, the software giant has significantly updated its office productivity suite, offering a more refined look at the rougher Technical Preview it announced in January....More

Outlook fans will appreciate the updated user interfaces in Outlook 15 while noting that the basic experience is familiar and quite similar to that of previous versions....More