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Office 365 subscription package pricing revealed

Written by AboKevin on . Posted in Microsoft, Office, Office 2013

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As you know by now, I have installed the Office 365 Preview on several of my and my household computers. It looks to be an amazing product, that will probably launch sometime next month (October 2012).

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Office 365 is promising to offer an Office 2013 package consisting of the following applications; Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Publisher, Access and OneNote, to you as a  subscriber allowing you to have the suite installed on up to 5 devices. With SkyDrive integration, as well as a streaming version of Office on demand, this is almost too good to be true. But of course, it all comes down to price. I have previously mused that a sweet spot for me would be somewhere between $5 and $10 dollars a month, but never really believed the price would eventually turn out to be that low. It looks like my wishes are granted, and that my beliefs were wrong.

According to an article on the Verge today, written my Tom Warren, Microsoft will announce that the subscription price for Office 365 Home Premium will be $8.33 a month ($99.99 pr year).If that report turns out to be true, which I believe it will, that is a no-brainer and should help male Microsoft’s wet dream of millions of consumer subscribers come true.

Check out Tom Warrens article, and see the comparison chart showing in detail which features will be in the different versions of the suite.

Good times!

Office 365 Home Premium Preview

Written by AboKevin on . Posted in Microsoft, Office, Office 2013

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In my previous post, Preview of Office 2013 Public Preview, I showed off many screenshots of Office 2013 Public Preview. I installed that suite using the old-fashioned MSI installer, getting the file via TechNet. But one of the really revolutionary ways that the next version of Office 2013 is going to distributed as, is as Software as a Service. Office 365 Home Premium has little, if nothing to do with the web-based service that Office 365 is today. Instead it is the full Office suite for consumers delivered as a service over the net. Pricing is as of now not clear, but for a monthly/yearly fee you will have access to the Office suite linked to your Windows ID. This suite is delivered over the net to the device you are working on (the files are installed locally through one-click installs) and 1 license equals 5 installs.

In the latest episode of Windows Weekly, Paul Thurrott speculated that the price for this service will probably be around $10 dollars or less a month, which in case it happens will be a really compelling offer. Not only do you get 5 installs (which you yourself will be able to manage) for this price, but the software suite will always be up to date – courtesy of Microsoft.

Today I installed the Office 365 Home Premium Public Preview on my laptop, and the install process is easy and fast. From the time you hit install and until you are ready to start exploring it takes around 90 seconds. Everything is not installed in that timeframe though, but the rest of the software is being installed in the background as you are looking into the first application that is presented. Total time is still a lot less than a traditional MSI install. If you try this version out, you are also able to have it installed alongside your previous version of Office.

I recommend that you try it out. This really is the new way of Office being delivered to you going forward, and I really, really like it!

Take a look at the screenshots from the install process, try it out yourself (you can get the bits here) and let me know what you think in the comments section below. Bon appetite

Preview of Office 2013 Public Preview

Written by AboKevin on . Posted in Office 2013

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Yesterday, Microsoft released the Office 2013 Public Preview. Now for the first time, the average consumer (ie us) will be able to test out a pre-release version of the Office suites to come.

I downloaded the Office Professional Plus 2013 Public Preview (x86) version throught Technet, and will provide some screenshots from some of the applications to give you an impression of what’s coming.

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image Installation process

After executing the installation file, you are given the choice of upgrade or fresh install. I chose to upgrade my existing Office 2010 suite. When the installation was finished I was greeted with this box;

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In this box I of course selected to Sign in;

 

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Here I was given the choice between a personal or organizational account

 

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Up came this not so very pretty dialogue which mixes new Metro style, with the old-fashioned Windows Live ID sign on UI.

 

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I was then greeted by Office 2013 Public Preview, and was asked how I would like Office to look. I chose Calligraphy, which aligns with the corresponding theme in Windows 8 Release Preview

 

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Then I was given some information on the direct link between the new Office suites and the Microsoft Skydrive cloud-service

 

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After that bit of info, you are given the choice of taking a look into what is new in Office 2013 Public Preview

 

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The information on what is new is given as a PowerPoint 2013 presentation

 

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First some information on the link between your Microsoft account (former Windows Live ID) and Office

 

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Then some more of the same information on the link between Skydrive and Office

 

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According to this brief intro by Microsoft that is pretty much it. Or is it really? Lets see!

 

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image Outlook 2013

I started up Outlook 2013 as the first application, since it is this one, alongside Word that I use the most.

 

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As is easily seen, Outlook has also gotten the Metro style look and feel. Although still fairly easy to recognize from the previous version

 

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The Account information view

 

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The Office Account view from where you can activate your account, as well as view connected accounts.

 

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After entering the product key, my desktop computer was added to my account

 

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The Outlook options dialogue revealed an old-fashioned IU-style dialogue box – I presume this will be changed before the final release.

 

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The Ribbon; Home tab view in Outlook 2013 Public Preview

 

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The Ribbon; Send/receive tab view in Outlook 2013 Public Preview

 

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The Ribbon; Folder tab view in Outlook 2013 Public Preview

 

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The Ribbon; The View tab view in Outlook 2013 Public Preview

 

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The Calendar, monthly view

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The People view (formerly Contacts, now named People, aligning it with Windows 8 and Windows Phone)

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The Task view

 

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The Notes view

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And finally the Folder view

 

image Word 2013

 

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When you open Word you will see this screen

 

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The Info screen in Word 2013 Public Preview

 

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The New screen in Word 2013 Public Preview

 

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And this is what a blank document looks like in Word 2013 Public Preview.

 

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The Ribbon; Home tab view in Word 2013 Public Preview

 

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The Ribbon; Insert tab view in Word 2013 Public Preview

 

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The Ribbon; Design tab view in Word 2013 Public Preview

 

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The Ribbon; Page layout tab view in Word 2013 Public Preview

 

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The Ribbon; References tab view in Word 2013 Public Preview

 

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The Ribbon; Mailings tab view in Word 2013 Public Preview

 

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The Ribbon; Review tab view in Word 2013 Public Preview

 

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The Ribbon; View tab view in Word 2013 Public Preview

 

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The Ribbon; Format picture tab view in Word 2013 Public Preview

 

 

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When you open PowerPoint 2013 Public Preview you are greeted with this dialogue

 

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The standard layout with the Home tab Ribbon view in PowerPoint 2013 Public Preview

 

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The Ribbon; Home tab view in PowerPoint 2013 Public Preview

 

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The Ribbon; Insert tab view in PowerPoint 2013 Public Preview

 

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The Ribbon; Design tab view in PowerPoint 2013 Public Preview

 

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The Ribbon; Transitions tab view in PowerPoint 2013 Public Preview

 

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The Ribbon; Animations tab view in PowerPoint 2013 Public Preview

 

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The Ribbon; Slide show tab view in PowerPoint 2013 Public Preview

 

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The Ribbon; Review tab view in PowerPoint 2013 Public Preview

 

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The Ribbon; View tab view in PowerPoint 2013 Public Preview

 

 

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When you open Excel 2013 Public Preview you are greeted with this dialogue

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The standard layout with the Home tab Ribbon view in Excel 2013 Public Preview

 

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When selecting File – Open you are presented with this view. The Skydrive integration is easily seen

 

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The same goes for the File – Save as screen.

 

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And this is how the File – Print screen now looks

 

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The File – Share screen looks like this

 

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And the File – Export screen gives you these options. As promised you are now able to create .pdf documents directly within the Office 2013 suite of applications

 

 

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The Ribbon; Home tab view in Excel 2013 Public Preview

 

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The Ribbon; Insert tab view in Excel 2013 Public Preview

 

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The Ribbon; Page layout tab view in Excel 2013 Public Preview

 

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The Ribbon; Formulas tab view in Excel 2013 Public Preview

 

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The Ribbon; Data tab view in Excel 2013 Public Preview

 

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The Ribbon; Review tab view in Excel 2013 Public Preview

 

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The Ribbon; View tab view in Excel 2013 Public Preview

 

 

image OneNote 2013

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When you open OneNote 2013 Public Preview you are greeted with this dialogue

 

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When selecting File – Info you are presented with this view

 

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When selecting File – New you are presented with this view.

 

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In the standard layout view the ribbon is by default hidden

 

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But once you click on for instance, the Home tab, the Home Ribbon slides down

 

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The OneNote 2013 Public Preview Ribbon; Insert tab.

 

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The OneNote 2013 Public Preview Ribbon; Draw tab.

 

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The OneNote 2013 Public Preview Ribbon; History tab.

 

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The OneNote 2013 Public Preview Ribbon; Review tab.

 

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The OneNote 2013 Public Preview Ribbon; View tab.

 

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When you open Microsoft Publisher 2013 Public Preview File – New you are greeted with this dialogue

 

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The Standard layout of the Microsoft Publisher 2013 Public Preview.

 

That was a quick look through some of the applications in the Office 2013 Public Preview. In the Professional Plus suite that I downloaded these additional applications can be found;

image Access 2013, image InfoPath Designer 2013, image InfoPath Filler 2013, image Lync 2013

 

I will be using the Office 2013 Public Preview going forward, and will keep you posted on my impressions and views on it. Want to give it a try yourself? You can download the Public Preview from here. Good luck, and please tell me what you think in the comments below.

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