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Office, SharePoint 2013 Previewed

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Public preview versions of the Office 2013 desktop applications (formerly code-named Office 15), SharePoint 2013, and other key Office servers and services were announced at an event in San Francisco, CA, on July 16, 2012. The previews enable customers to test the products and provide limited feedback to Microsoft. The public previews follow a private preview release among selected customers that began in Jan. 2012. If the upcoming versions follow the pattern of Office 2010, they should be released for general availability in early 2013.

Office 2013 Focused on Touch, Synchronization, Social

The Office suite, Microsoft’s most widely used client application for business, enables document editing, data access and manipulation, e-mail, presentations, and collaboration. It ships in multiple editions that include combinations of the following applications:

  • Word (document creation)
  • Excel (spreadsheet)
  • PowerPoint (presentation)
  • Outlook (e-mail, calendar, and contacts)
  • OneNote

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