

There’s now an “Office 365 Home Premium,” which offers software versions of Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook, OneNote, Access, and Publisher on up to five PCs and 20GB of SkyDrive storage. In other words, Office 365 competed against Google Apps for Business there was no Microsoft equivalent to the consumer-oriented Google Apps.

Users can share workbooks by attaching them to an IM. It also recommends some suitable Charts and PivotTables so you can select the best one. Excel: Excel watches your actions, recognizes the pattern, and auto-completes data entry (called “Flash Fill”).When signed in to SkyDrive, the system remembers where you last were in the document. Word: Documents are saved to SkyDrive by default (assuming you’re online and signed in to your organizational account).Besides making it easier on the eyes, this probably takes some load off of the graphics processors, making the app run faster on less powerful devices. It’s also much cleaner: the UI is less cluttered and the chrome is gone. User interface: Office 2013 is much more tablet (touch and stylus) friendly.This is not a comprehensive list, but rather some highlights. Office 2010 based on yesterday’s announcement.

Following is a high-level comparison of Office 2013 vs.
