Microsoft Office suite will take your mobile Windows 10

Microsoft will soon bring their previous views Office apps - Word, Excel and Powerpoint - Windows smartphones. The new apps come to Windows 10 Technical Preview for Windows phones in late April and offer a taste of Office 2016, and a closer look at Microsoft plans to make Windows 10 is the operating system for all. Windows 10 is expected to be officially launched this summer.

Image from : CNET.COM, In the reading mode, Word documents look like web pages.

"The documents are a relic of when people printed things," said Jared Spataro, CEO of Microsoft Office Marketing. During a demonstration, he showed Spataro Word running on a Nokia Lumia 1520, which he admits is a bit stacked to write and edit documents space. But with Windows 10, Microsoft is working to respond to challenges that the company had ignored for years: mobile devices, including tablets and smartphones.

Most of us do not print as much as we used to, and the documents we create are now increasingly complex: they include images, tables and graphics. Future versions of Word provide a new way of reading: all elements of the document you are reading will "flow" to fit your device. That could mean that you will be leaving the archaic "piece of paper" metaphor in favor of a simplified text - or text columns, if you're on a tablet - interspersed with images and the like. Double-click on an image or graphic and it expands so you can appreciate the details.

Image from CNET.COM : I do not recommend using Excel on a phone, but you can.

I note that the experience looks and feels just like the web, and Spataro agrees and says that's just the point. Mobile websites and applications such as Pocket own reading mode Windows 8 we have conditioned many of us to view documents not as sheets of paper, but as as flowing text. You can also change things to your liking and make adjustments as changes in text size will not affect the original document.

The time I spent with the new Office for Windows phone was very short indeed, but clearly it is designed, as explained Spataro, for productivity "On the Go". Read or edit long documents in a smartphone screen will never be a pleasant experience, but with these universal applications means that you will not miss the key features of Office, or you are forced to take a laptop when you want to edit a document. Probably you not want to create a spreadsheet on a smartphone, but you'll have most of the box office tools at your fingertips, and that will be a powerful tool for professionals of today, every time They make more things from their phones.

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This is not entirely new: we got a first glimpse of touch versions of Office for Windows PCs in February, when the preview versions of Excel, Word and PowerPoint is first made available in Windows 10 Technical Preview for PCs . And Microsoft has made mobile versions of Office available for Android and iOS devices. But when these applications reach the end of the month, it will be our first real taste of how life will be our computer with Windows 10: Universal applications that share a code base much of its interface, and an almost identical functionality.

I saw the show focused on these universal applications in Windows phones, but other devices are not left behind. There will still be a desktop version of Office 2016 that shares many of the elements of the user interface of its universal brothers, based on mobile, but contains all the power and features you've come to expect from Office applications. However, there is still much more information about this version could be different ..

Universal apps run on phones, tablets and PCs.Nate Ralph/CNET

They also said Microsoft, although respectful of Google and see him as a "great competitor in the space," confident that the experience of the Office application will be superior to what we could find in the suite of Google apps Drive. Microsoft is not ignoring the competing platforms, either. Say you have an iPad or Android tablet: If a colleague uses the functionality to share a document in Word, you can open, view and edit it right in Microsoft Word online for free. Of course, if you have the Microsoft Word application installed, that will be displayed instead.

And this brings me to the subject of prices: Microsoft has not revealed how much it costs or how Office 2016 is expected to pay for a license. The preview of the Office suite on Windows 10 can use it to test it for free now. But as with applications for iOS and Android, there is no freemium pricing model: try to activate the change control Word, for example, and you will be asked to notes for a subscription to Office 365.

Prior universal view of Office for Windows 10 phones will be available in late April. I, of course, be ready to make an analysis in detail.

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