  Microsoft unveils touch-ready version of Office July 17, 2012 - 12:01 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Microsoft has unveiled a touch-ready version of Office, the latest version of the company's market-leading productivity software suite. In San Francisco, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer described Office 2013 as the firm's "most ambitious release" to date. The software is primed for mobile devices, cloud computing, and social networking. For the first time, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook are all responsive to touch-screen controls - taps, swipes, and pinch-and-zoom can be used within documents, files and presentations. The user-experience is designed to be more "immersive," "visceral" and "multimedia-rich" compared to earlier version of Office. The other features are: Documents, slides, and presentations can be marked up on mobile screens, drawn on, highlighted or annotated with a digital pen, stylus or even a finger. Skype, bought for $8.5bn (£5.4bn) in 2011, and Yammer, a social network for businesses, are being rolled into Office: live, multi-party conversations and meetings can be created with Skype video and accessed within Word, PowerPoint, or Outlook. New "People Cards" include an individual's digital "presence" - a photo, options to email, instant message, phone or video chat, and activity feeds from the social networks Facebook and Linkedin. Skydrive automatically saves and syncs all Office documents in an online, cloud-based storage service. This makes files and content created in Office available on demand across computing devices. Partner news  Top stories Apple joined the Fair Labor Association in 2012 after being slammed with criticism over the working conditions at Foxconn. It’s not the first time Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer has been interested in the New York-based hipster blogging service. The number of new smartphones delivered with Android jumped to 162.1 million in the first three months in 2013. “We believe Samsung generates more revenue and profit from the Android platform than Google does,” Neil Mawston said.   Partner news |  Latest news CoE Secretary General in Russia for talks with Putin, Lavrov  The visit's program will start when the Council of Europe chief meets with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Sochi.Armenia, Artsakh discuss parliamentary cooperation Bako Sahakyan met with some members of the Armenian National Assembly’s standing commission on foreign relations.Court to announce verdict in Barev Yerevan’s lawsuit on polling results The bloc urges the court to annul the decision and calls on the CEC to discuss Barev Yerevan bloc’s May 10 application.Venezuela makes rare diplomatic overture to U.S. “We are going to remain open to normalizing relations with the United States,” Foreign Minister Elias Jaua said. |
