1. Omicron Development 2009 Old Cuthbert Road Cherry Hill, NJ 08034 Microsoft Office in 2015 David F. Soll Chief Technology Officer Omicron Development LLC dsoll@omicron.com

2. Omicron Development 2009 Old Cuthbert Road Cherry Hill, NJ 08034 Agenda Introduction Editions Licensing System Requirements Office 2013 Overview The Next Version of Office Conclusions

3. Omicron Development 2009 Old Cuthbert Road Cherry Hill, NJ 08034 Introduction Presenter: David F. Soll President and Chief Technology Officer, Omicron Development Treasurer, PCJS IEEE Past Chair, Princeton/Central NJ IEEE Computer Society Senior Member of the IEEE Recipient of the IEEE Region 1 Award Past Chair, Princeton Chapter of the ACM Senior Member of the ACM Chair, TCF IT Professional Conference Over 30 years in computing

4. Omicron Development 2009 Old Cuthbert Road Cherry Hill, NJ 08034 Office 2013 Editions Office Home and Student 2013 Office Home and Business 2013 Office Professional 2013 Office Professional Plus 2013 Office 365 Home Premium Office 365 University Office 365 Small Business Premium Office 365 ProPlus Office 365 Enterprise

5. Omicron Development 2009 Old Cuthbert Road Cherry Hill, NJ 08034 Office 2013 Editions

6. Omicron Development 2009 Old Cuthbert Road Cherry Hill, NJ 08034 Office 2013 On-line Purchase Source: email from Rakuten (Buy.com)

7. Omicron Development 2009 Old Cuthbert Road Cherry Hill, NJ 08034 Office 2013 Editions FeatureOffice 365 Home Premium Home & Student Home & Business ProfessionalProfessional Plus Price$99.99 Per Year $139.99$219.99$399.99Volume License WordYes ExcelYes PowerPointYes OneNoteYes OutlookYes PublisherYes AccessYes InfoPathYes LyncYes

8. Omicron Development 2009 Old Cuthbert Road Cherry Hill, NJ 08034 What About Windows RT An Office 2013 for Windows RT comes on Surface devices Outlook was missing with RT 8, but was added with RT 8.1 The RT edition does NOT support: Macros Add-ins Send-As (i.e.: Attachment) Mail Merge Automatic Synchronization with SkyDrive Equation Editor ActiveX Audio and Video OneNote Recording

9. Omicron Development 2009 Old Cuthbert Road Cherry Hill, NJ 08034 Licensing Office 2013 Home & Student Home & BusinessStandardProfessional Professional Plus AvailabilityRetail, OEMRetailVolume licensingRetailVolume licensing Maximum users11As licensed1 Devices per user11As licensed1 Office 365Home PremiumUniversity Small Business Premium ProPlusEnterprise Availability Software as a service Maximum users all users in one household11025Unlimited Devices per user 5 shared among all users 2 computers and 2 mobiles555

10. Omicron Development 2009 Old Cuthbert Road Cherry Hill, NJ 08034 Licensing (cont’d.)

11. Omicron Development 2009 Old Cuthbert Road Cherry Hill, NJ 08034 Office 2013 Requirements Processor 1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster x86- or x64-bit processor with SSE2 instruction set Memory (RAM) 1 gigabyte (GB) RAM (32-bit); 2 gigabytes (GB) RAM (64-bit) Hard Disk3.0 gigabytes (GB) available Display Graphics hardware acceleration requires a DirectX10 graphics card and a 1024 x 576 or higher resolution monitor Browser Internet Explorer 8, 9, or 10; Mozilla Firefox 10.x or a later version; Apple Safari 5; or Google Chrome 17.x.

12. Omicron Development 2009 Old Cuthbert Road Cherry Hill, NJ 08034 Office 2013 Requirements Operating System Windows Server 2008 R2 (64-bit) Windows 7 (32-bit or 64-bit) Windows Server 2012 (64-bit) Windows 8 (32-bit or 64-bit).NET version3.5, 4.0, or 4.5 Multi-touch A touch-enabled device is required to use any multi-touch functionality. But, all features and functionality are always available by using a keyboard, mouse, or other standard or accessible input device. Note that new touch features are optimized for use with Windows 8.

13. Omicron Development 2009 Old Cuthbert Road Cherry Hill, NJ 08034 New to Office 2013 Modern Interface Less 3D Less shading Simpler look Flat Clean

14. Omicron Development 2009 Old Cuthbert Road Cherry Hill, NJ 08034 New to Office 2013 (cont’d.) Start Screens

15. Omicron Development 2009 Old Cuthbert Road Cherry Hill, NJ 08034 New to Office 2013 (cont’d.) OneDrive Integration Save account info and default to SkyDrive OneDrive Storage 7 GB storage for free (without buying Office) Additional 20 GB for $10 per year Additional 50 GB for $25 per year Additional 100 GB for $50 per year Additional 25 GB with Office 365 Home Premium

16. Omicron Development 2009 Old Cuthbert Road Cherry Hill, NJ 08034 New to Office 2013 (cont’d.) Syncing Across Devices Really just a benefit of saving to OneDrive or other Cloud location Doesn’t actually “sync” If saves to a location available to other devices instead of the local hard drive There is a module that will synchronize a OneDrive cache (folder) with OneDrive

17. Omicron Development 2009 Old Cuthbert Road Cherry Hill, NJ 08034 New to Office 2013 (cont’d.) Touchscreen Office 2013 has been designed to be used with a touchscreen When in “Read” mode, swiping moves through pages Has a “Touch” mode specifically for touchscreens This means larger “landing” spots (thus eating screen real estate)

18. Omicron Development 2009 Old Cuthbert Road Cherry Hill, NJ 08034 New to Office 2013 (cont’d.) PDF Editing Can open PDF files directly Then save as PDF or as DOC or DOCX

19. Omicron Development 2009 Old Cuthbert Road Cherry Hill, NJ 08034 New to Office 2013 (cont’d.) Formatting Task Panes in PowerPoint Formatting images, shapes, and other objects in PowerPoint is now more intuitive

20. Omicron Development 2009 Old Cuthbert Road Cherry Hill, NJ 08034 New to Office 2013 (cont’d.) Easier Charting New “Recommended Charts” feature

21. Omicron Development 2009 Old Cuthbert Road Cherry Hill, NJ 08034 New to Office 2013 (cont’d.) More Graphics Options New icons on the Insert tab of the ribbon Insert from online sources, including Bing, SkyDrive, and Flickr

22. Omicron Development 2009 Old Cuthbert Road Cherry Hill, NJ 08034 New to Office 2013 (cont’d.) New Account Login capability Allows you to store credentials for cloud storage

23. Omicron Development 2009 Old Cuthbert Road Cherry Hill, NJ 08034 New to Office 2013 (cont’d.) Outlook now had built-in support for Exchange ActiveSync It can support Hotmail accounts directly without needing a plugin

24. Omicron Development 2009 Old Cuthbert Road Cherry Hill, NJ 08034 New to Office 2013 (cont’d.) PowerPivot is built into Excel 2013 PowerPivot is disabled by default and must manually be enabled

25. Omicron Development 2009 Old Cuthbert Road Cherry Hill, NJ 08034 Power Add-Ins Power BI A cloud service that lets you share, collaborate and access Excel reports anywhere on any device Power Query An Excel add-in that enhances the self-service Business Intelligence experience in Excel by simplifying data discovery, access and collaboration Power Map A 3D visualization add-in for Excel for mapping, exploring, and interacting with geographical and temporal data

26. Omicron Development 2009 Old Cuthbert Road Cherry Hill, NJ 08034 The Next Version of Office Windows Universal Application Store based Application Designed for touch Doesn’t have the rich ribbon of 2013 Appears to be more limited No specified release date Rumored to come out with Windows 10 (summer, 2015)

27. Omicron Development 2009 Old Cuthbert Road Cherry Hill, NJ 08034 Conclusions The biggest change to the Office suite is the push towards a subscription model of licensing Office 2013 has improved cloud based access Office has continued to become easier to use

28. Omicron Development 2009 Old Cuthbert Road Cherry Hill, NJ 08034 Microsoft Office 2013 David F. Soll Chief Technology Officer Omicron Development LLC dsoll@omicron.com This presentation is available at: http://home.comcast.net/~soll/