New Microsoft Office gets more social

Announced today, Microsoft's latest Office suite will try to help users collaborate more easily through social media.

Demoing the new version of Office at a press conference today, Kirk Koenigsbauer, a corporate vice president for Office, showed a five-person video chat using Microsoft's Lync application. In the demo, Koenigsbauer revealed how he could drag and drop someone from his buddy list into the live meeting.

Another participant was able to drop a PowerPoint presentation onto the shared canvas for all to see. Koenigsbauer then showed how users could draw directly on the presentation via a touch-screen device, which then appeared on PowerPoint for other meeting participants.

Since OneNote is integrated into Lync, users can share their notebooks with other people on the conference call and even take and display notes while the meeting progresses.

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