Microsoft 'New Office' at your fingertip

(iTers News) – Microsoft Korea today announced a new generation of Windows office suite, New Office, for corporate, enterprise market.

Especially designed for Windows 8 OS, the New Office is a sort of cross-platform software suite that can work with any OS and any device, supporting multi OSes and multi devices..

It can be ported and downloaded on smart phones, tablet PCs, and notebok PCs of multiple OSes like Andriod, iOS, and Chrome. It can support compatibility with any other HTML-based-Web browser like Safari and FireFox.

“Cloud service, social network, big data, and mobile are the four biggest buzzwords that are sweeping through global IT industry. New Office is designed to fit well into the irreversible mega-trends. If the Internet is available, you have New Office at your finger tip anytime and anywhere, “ Kang Hee Sun, director with Microsoft Korea.

Always with New Office as you go   

What makes it different from the predecessor is its ability to support capacitive multi-touch features, allowing users to flip through pages after pages and pinch zoom in and out on-screen menus with their fingers. Users also can hand write, or scribble down characters as well as alphanumeric symbols and paint icons and pictures with the use of a stylus pen.

As it supports auto-input-recognition features, it allows users to automatically switch from one input device to another, recognizing all input UIs like mouse, fingers, keyboards, and stylus pens.

 Flip though with fingers

The ubiquity goes beyond devices and OSes. Once log onto Microsoft’s cloud-based storage space Skydrive, users can bring up his New Office anywhere and anytime, working on any device available nearby, sharing, synchronizing documents, and storing them. For example, multi users can work on one document, of file simultaneously.

Perfect fit for Cloud computing 

Enhanced security features and personalization are other outstanding features. If you log onto the New Office, it can automatically identify a user’s profile depending on custom-tailored  and pre-defined log-on information.

The New Office is the  family naming for a whole spectrum of new office software suites that include all 7 separate Office offerings from Office to Office 365 to Exchanges to  Lync to Share Prints to to Visio to Projects.

The New Office for enterprise and corporate clients will be available sometime in November, while consumer version is about to go on sale in early 2013.

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