Office 365

Microsoft is now previewing a major update to its cloud-enabled Office 365 office suite which will add Windows 8 support, along with a first-time "home" edition of a Web service once geared to businesses only. 

Microsoft Office 365 Review

Microsoft is now previewing a major update to its cloud-enabled Office 365 office suite which will add Windows 8 support, along with a first-time "home" edition of a Web service once geared to businesses only. Will the Office 13-based Office 365 Home Premium be right for you, or should you buy the retail software instead? Now that pricing for the "new Office" is available from Microsoft, we'll explore that question in this review of Home Premium.

The basic premise of Office 365 is this: Instead of dropping a bigger chunk of cash to buy a license for Microsoft Office 2013 outright, you'll be able to rent it from Microsoft for a monthly fee.

Google Docs Vs Office 365

With Google Docs, if you don't have Internet access, you don't have your software. Office 365 bypasses this issue by installing the apps on your PC, to give you some offline capability.

Salient FEATURES :

Features:

WORD:

• Sleeky UI( metro + classic word)
• full support for the OpenDocument format version 1.2. 
• open and edit PDF files 
• direct embedding of internet photos and video into documents, in a fully viewable form.

EXCEL :  

•  "Flash Fill," which is basically a kind of auto-complete for spreadsheets - analyzes what you're putting into your spreadsheet and then tries to help

POWER POINT   

•  new projects now start off in a widescreen format.
• search YouTube straight from the app
• select a video from SkyDrive or your local computer
• paste in the embedding code for video from another website. 
• blurring, "art looks," and other pre-set effects 

OUTLOOK :    

• email mode now has two panes -- an inbox list and a reading pane -- while adding a navigation bar for selecting between folders.
•  built-in weather report in the scheduler view which shows you the current conditions and the forecast for the next two days for your selected location
•  get reports for up to five locations, but you have to switch between them manually.

OneNote :

• automatic bookmarking, so you can immediately reopen notes where you left them.
•  optical character recognition (OCR) on imported images.

Publisher 2013

• not much of changes