15 things to know about Microsoft Office 15

At this point, we are not quite sure what applications such as Excel, OneNote, PowerPoint and Word of Office 15 will be, but can be partly seen through leaked news or main announcement by Microsoft. awake.

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1. "Office 2012" or maybe "2013" and not "15"

Although a Microsoft blog post refers to the suite as Office 15 , its official name will probably be ' Office 2012 '. As planned, this application suite will be released later this year or later in 2013. 15 is only the version number of the entire office suite.

2. Technical test version

On January 30 this year, Microsoft announced it has provided a technical test - technical preview for some selected subjects to provide feedback to Microsoft. These objects are still in secret, but some details related to applications such as Excel, OneNote, Outlook, PowerPoint and Word have been leaked. According to this information, Microsoft's new office suite will have a neat interface with a dominant white tone.

3. "Office 15" has leaked?

The next version of this Office suite has even been leaked online for a whole year ago (it can still be found at download bittorrent sites). But the leaked version is a far cry from what has just been leaked since Microsoft released a technical test. The leaked version soon was probably an upgraded Office 2010 version and labeled Office 15. Even though it also has Moorea code-named media management tools, but the user interface, applications and tools. identical to Office 2010.

4. Introduction video

On February 9, Microsoft announced a video about the development process of Windows 8 on the ARM platform (WoA). In that video, one can see some new Office related images. Some pictures of Excel, OneNote, PowerPoint and Word on Windows 8 are provided here.

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One Note application screen of Office 15 on Windows 8

5. Is the Ribbon interface wiped out?

Also from the video on Windows 8 above, it is questioned that Microsoft seems to have abandoned the Ribbon interface to return to the previous traditional interface. But also in that video, Ribbon mode has been hidden. Anyhow, it seems that the Ribbon interface will not be considered a highlight of the new version of Office.

6. Support good touch interface

Microsoft has emphasized applications of the new Office suite that will be designed with a touch screen-friendly user interface. There was leaked information about a button that enabled the touch screen interface mode. The interface of the Ribbon and other elements in the application will be enlarged and easier to manipulate after this mode is activated.

7. Is Office 15 the Metro app .?

Still following the above video, it seems that Microsoft will not completely replace the user interface of the Office suite in the next version of Windows 8 operating system. That is, the interface of the new Office suite will not tilt towards the Metro as heavy on touch and focus on panels. Office 2012 will have a traditional-style interface like the current version of Office 2010.

8. So will there be a version exclusively for Metro?

With Office being a popular application suite on the vast majority of Windows-based computers, Microsoft will provide a version of Office 15 with some features tweaked to suit the Metro interface is complete. It is possible and indeed this is what the airline should do.

9. Integrated cloud computing

This feature will definitely be brought to Microsoft by the new Office suite. Users can save their documents to ' cloudy ' with Microsoft's SkyDrive service. (Office 2010 itself also has some features that support SkyDrive service)

10. Save more resources?

Microsoft has mentioned that its new office suite will consume less memory and consume less CPU power than recent Office versions. This is worth noting and it is suitable for running on power-saving devices such as tablets and laptops.

11. Office 15 will run on ARM platforms

Similar to the aforementioned, once Microsoft " crafted " a tablet-specific version, making the program's interfaces more user-friendly with the touch interface, the new Office runs on ARM platforms. is a matter of course.

12. Office 15 does not run with Windows XP

There are still quite a lot of personal and business users still loyal to this old version of the operating system. But they were no longer supported by Microsoft, the company officially withdrew IE 9 from XP and had little chance of letting Microsoft let the new Office work with XP (the old operating system was officially planned ' off. retired 'in April 2014). Will this move by Microsoft make nostalgic users give up on XP and switch to newer operating system versions, at least Windows 7?

13. Working with Kinect?

This is a somewhat ' upbeat ' prediction, but based on the fact that Microsoft has also announced a version of Windows for Kinect, it's not surprising. This gesture recognition device will have the opportunity to dive into life in addition to supporting xBox 360 gamers. And if Kinect really supports Office 15, the scenario we switch back to PowerPoint slides. Only by waving a hand is possible. But if you have a long presentation, you're probably quite tired of this control mechanism .

14. The time of extensive beta testing

It is very likely that this trial will appear this summer, more specifically around May or June. Users who want to try will have to go through the registration process on Microsoft's website as the company applied when Download Windows 8 trial version for developers.

15. Official launch date of Office 15

Office 15 or Office 2012 will be officially launched later this year or early next year. Microsoft itself is also hesitating between December 2012 or January 2013.