And finally Microsoft has announced the latest integral of its productivity suite. Microsoft Office 2013 or Office 15′s Customer Preview aka Office 365 Preview is now live on Microsoft download center.

Office 2013 / 15 arrives with lots of new changes and now it is upgrading to Cloud platform. Office 15 includes touch, stylus followed by keyboard and mouse. You can use its touch edition on various devices like tablets, laptops and of course on PC.

Now let us discuss the important features of this release:

Touch Everywhere

The new office will response the touch in the similar fashion as it with keyboard and mouse. Swipe your fingers across screen and pinch to zoom to magnify the documents and images. Author new content and access them with the ease of your fingers.

Inking

Use the stylus to create content, take notes and access features. Color your content and erase the vulnerabilities with simplicity. Use your stylus as a laser pointing when presenting.

 New Windows 8 Applications

Office 2013 includes Windows 8 applications like OneNote and Lync. These applications were specially designed to make the touch experience rather better. OneNote here includes a new radial menu which makes easy to use the touch features with fingers.

Now its time to see the promo video:

Here are the system requirements for this edition of Office 15:

• Computer and processor: 1 GHz or greater x86/x64 Processor with SSE2 instruction set

• Memory: 1 GB RAM (32-bit) / 2 GB RAM (64-bit)

• Hard disk: 3.5 GB free disk space

• Operating System: Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Server 2008 R2 or newer (Windows XP / Vista are no longer supported!)

• Graphics: Graphics hardware acceleration requires DirectX10 graphics card and 1024×576 resolution

You can download Office 2013 using following direct links:

Office 2013 64-bit

Office 2013 32-bit

Official Page

See Also

• [How To] Start MS Office PowerPoint 2010 In Safe Mode

• [How To] Disable Splash Screen In Microsoft Office 2010

This article was posted in "Microsoft Office'' section by Kapil Arya.
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6 Comments

1. Kelvin

   yet another touch step from microsoft!!!

2. someone

   This is great news for me an end office user, will download right now :)

3. Pankaj

   Is this free?????????????????????????????????????????

4. Kapil Arya

   ^^ Yup.

5. hopachi

   Nice article and nice move bt what xp users do to use it?

6. WERIV

   @hopachi- Windows XP is no use for this office

   Thanks guys downloading @ 100 MBPS

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