Monday, July 16, 2012

New Microsoft Office taps into the cloud



Microsoft's new version of Office will take heavy advantage of the cloud.


Demoing the upcoming new suite at a press conference today, Kirk Koenigsbauer, a corporate vice president for Office, explained how Office apps will sync key settings by using SkyDrive as a central repository.


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After you sign in, you'll see the same settings, templates, dictionaries, and recent documents across all of your Windows devices - PCs, tablets, and smartphones.


Using Word as an example, Koenigsbauer showed how users can insert pictures through the traditional Office.com clipart, through image searches via Bing, by opening something from SkyDrive, or by grabbing something from Flickr. Ever further, Office can use incorporate live multimedia into its documents, with a user embedding a live YouTube video, for example.


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