Microsoft offers Office on annual subscription
As many as five devices may be connected, with 20 GB cloud storage allocation
THE NEW version of Microsoft Office is now a yearly cloud service subscription. The Office 365 Home Premium also offers 20 gigabytes of storage through Microsoft's free online cloud service SkyDrive. The essential applications Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Outlook, Publisher and Access remain and are significantly improved.
"This is Office re-imagined as a cloud service with all the fullfeatured Office applications people know and love, together with impressive new cloud and social benefits built for the modern day consumer," said said Karrie Ilagan, managing director of Microsoft Philippines.
Word or the file is no longer just a document file. Apps for Word offers tons of features to make any file worth reading. Apps for Office button on the Insert tab reveals many choices in the Office Store.
The Design tab works for people who like to create a theme or style for their document files. The Simplified Mark-up view or change bar in the left margin shows where changes were done. It's just one-click flips between showing and hiding the changes.
PDF Reflow can convert the PDF file to an editable Word document. Word will pull the content from the fixed format PDF and preserve as much of the layout and formatting as possible.
Because Office 365 is in the cloud, inserting pictures to the document is much faster. Just choose from the files uploaded on SkyDrive or from other web locations. In the new Word, the Layout options button will show when the content is selected the content and allows users to quickly choose a text wrapping option.
"The new Microsoft Office allows (people) to get things done at home, school and work through any device, anytime and anywhere," said Tovia Va'aelua, Microsoft Office division lead. "Before, Office used to belong to your machine. Now, it belongs to you and works across all your devices."
Microsoft also announced that it will now deliver many new features and services to the cloud, transforming the company's traditional three-year release cycle. New features and services stream to subscribers as soon as they are ready, keeping subscribers always up-to-date while eliminating the hassles of upgrading.
At P3,499, one Office license is good for the entire household to use on up to five devices, including Windows tablets, PCs or Macs, and Office on Demand available from any Internet-connected PC. New subscriptions also get 60 free Skype world calling minutes a month.