Microsoft Office 2013:

Microsoft Office 2013

Microsoft has launched the latest version of Office, Mirosoft Office 2013, highlighting its links with cloud systems and social media channels..

The release of Office 2013 marks a stage in Microsoft's increased emphasis on subscription licensing rather than sales of perpetual licences, with a full version of the new software available to subscribers to its Office 365 package.

The subscription version includes all the regular functions available within Microsoft Office 2013, including MS Word, MS Excel, MS Powerpoint, MS Onenote, MS Outlook and MS Publisher, along with Office Web Apps. It covers up to five devices which can be changed at any time, and provides 20GB of storage on the SkyDrive Platform, on top of the 7GB that comes with the regular licence.

Regular licences for the Home/Student basis include just Word, Excel, Powerpoint and Onenote, those for commercial use also take in Outlook, and the professional version includes Publisher and Microsoft Access.

The Office 2013 Professional version is priced at $399, Home and Student at $140, Home and Business at $220.