Whatever else we need to say about Excel 2013, the obvious changes brought about by Office 2013 hold true. The visual changes I mentioned previously in Word are maintained here, including the “Touch Mode” option in the default Quick Access toolbar. Coauthoring (though not simultaneous editing) is possible using SkyDrive and the built in Sharing [...]
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Both Microsoft and Apple are moving toward a more mobile-like environment for all of their systems. Windows 8 brings the Metro tile system we first saw in Windows Phone 7, while OS X Mountain Lion draws rather heavily on the iOS experience. There are, as you might expect, a large number of similarities. The big [...]
Now that the Preview has begun for Office 2013, it’s time to take a look at what has changed and why. The obvious starting point is Microsoft Word. For many people this can be the only truly vital part of their Office experience. Fortunately the newest changes will be incredibly simple to adapt to. On [...]
There are a lot of improvements that have come along with Windows 8. Performance is probably the biggest one. Tests are fairly consistently showing that even though we’re not using the finished product yet, the Windows 8 Release Preview outperforms Windows 7 in every area that matters. What really matters, however, is what you will [...]
While we can’t expect to see the full retail release of Windows 8 for at least several months, Microsoft released the Consumer Preview edition of their new OS on Wednesday. Now that we’ve had a chance to play around with its most recent iteration personally, we can start being a bit more specific about what [...]
