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aarongolliveron Office 2013: Just what on earth has the Office team been doing?

Office 2013 is out. I know because I bought it yesterday.

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/buy-microsoft-office-and-m...

aarongolliveron Office 2013: Just what on earth has the Office team been doing?

I have been loving Office 2013. SkyDrive is fantastic for keeping my notes and documents automatically synced between my desktop and laptop. While DropBox can do the same thing, it's a bit smoother when it's integrated right into the app. Also I think it looks much nicer than 2010, but that's personal opinion.

You might still be able to download the free preview version from here http://www.microsoft.com/office/preview/en

It should work for 60 days after 2013 came out. It should give you a good idea if you like it or not.

aarongolliveron Office 2013: Just what on earth has the Office team been doing?

You don't have to save things to SkyDrive though. How can you be "left out in the cold" if that functionality is unaltered?

aarongolliveron Office 2013: Just what on earth has the Office team been doing?

It is because you can access your "Office" from any copy of Office 2013. As long as a computer has 2013 installed, you can access your files. No downloading and setting up the dropbox app, or logging into dropbox.com and grabbing the files from there.

Just log in, edit, save, log out.

aarongolliveron Office 2013: Just what on earth has the Office team been doing?

Have you used the release version (not the preview)? Outlook has both dividing lines and a light grey theme (which slightly greys adjoining portions of the UI to make divisions more clear). Also, basically everything is clickable...