Windows 8 is on its way, dated, some say leaked in full if rumours are to be believed and most likely already officially rocking your retina displayed MacBook pro in the form of the release preview. It seems Apple users increasingly show much love for a full touch based ,app centric OS like Windows 8 and iJustine if you need any help installing it just let me know ...OK enuff dreaming .. and as is it may be some time before iJustine succumbs to my or Windows 8 charms lets proceed to rock on with Office 365.
For mine first preview I will be using the dual 14 inch 10 point touch first gen i5 Acer Iconia 6120 running the Windows 8 Release Preview. Whatever you have read about this tablet folly has probably been based largely on Windows 7 with custom touch software experiences (abysmal), however if you look through my reviews of the device it is when Windows 8 is installed on the generous for a tablet 700 gig HDD of the Acer Iconia 6120 that both it and Windows 8 truly shine. And if you look through the comments on thegameveda youtube videos of Windows 8 on the dual screen Iconia you will see ( come on Redmond) that people are frankly mad for it ...
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| Word , Excel ,Publisher and One Note open at once on the dual 14 inch Win 8 surface that is the Iconia 6120 |
However the most radical or as Microsoft probably call it evangelical thing about Office 365 hits you when you go to install it from your hotmail ne skydrive account and that is the ability to install it on 5 of your devices just like all those Metro Apps we have not paid for ...yet..
Consider if this licence model is carried forward to retail ( preview does not equal retail) then this will be a major advantage over rivals, allowing users to install on 5 machines really starts to leverage the cloud based features that Windows 8 enables and means you could run excel on one machine whilst running word on another , whilst running access on another , one note on yet another and PowerPoint on yet another feeding and moving and updating data for one project across all 5 machines. Sick! As they say in Landon town.
And if you look around your room now as well as you mac or pc you will see both android and iOS devices and these too can run the full , full office 365 suite thanks to streaming ..but that will form the next part of my preview for now let us carry on with my first impressions on a full Windows 8 tablet pc.
The second thing that hits you about the new office is that each application is now touch enabled so here is my very first experience of office 365 on a dual touch screened surface computer the Acer Iconia 6120. What you see here cannot be done on any other machine to date, the dual 14 inch touch screens give you so much surface to play around with it is a joy to work this way whether you do so in landscape
or if you choose the hallowed Courier ( portrait ) orientation for your dual screen surface.
The speed is astonishing , I have all the Office apps open in the videos above , whilst messing with Windows 8 Metro Apps there is no slow down . Multitasking on Windows 8 is frankly awesome , and having 5 office apps open on two touch screens of the Iconia allows you to freely move data , images , graphs etc from one app to another as you can see .
In Word the text entry is lightning fast , it feels accelerated even , with Power point it automatically uses one screen as a presentation screen and the other as you control screen , both on the Iconia can be operated with touch ! One note will let you scribble with Windows 8 handwriting recog , or pen input ( on the X220T) . Access , Publisher , Excel and Word all allow pinch zooming gestures , ever wanted to zoom in on that pesky data box in the corner of your massive excel sheet no need to reach for the glass or mouse just put your finger on it and zoom . Sorry Mac fans your Macbookpros will not let you do any of this . And that is the point of office 365 it is Windows 8's touch based killer app as much as it is a perennial update of olde faithful ..
Detailed looksees to follow as I spend more time with each application.
Till now we ( I ) have used tablets like the X220T to run older versions of office or google docs not really created for a mass touch or pen input market. You many have flirted with cut down Appified office alikes like Pages on iOS but you know you want and need the full office experience married with robust touch and cloud features. That is what you get with Office 365 and Windows 8 combining.
It is the double whammy of touch and cloud happy Windows 8 RT and Pro and Office 365 which places Microsoft in a unique position. Microsoft has literally placed Apple in a position where it is out of touch with the masses yearning for the most powerful productivity tool that is Office 365 and the ability to control and enhance its use with the touch and pen input, simple heavy duty cloud storage that is 20gig of Skydrive accessible across devices and OS, whether iOS, Android, Windows 8 and on pc tablet or phone with one hotmail account password and identity no fumbling with itunes or drop boxing ..
Consider I love my new iPad but for productivity it sucks, ok the new iPad is better than the previous generations but take a look at the pictures and videos in this blog entry they are of a dual 14 inch 10 point touch screen i5 powered surface computer .. the Acer Iconia 6120. On this tablet which actually costs less than the new iPad I can seriously work and explore the potential of dual surface Windows 8 computing. This is 1 year old hardware , think of the beautiful form factors with dual screen pen input that Microsoft and others are going to produce down the line and if they do not , there is nothing stopping us now is there ? I will be ripping out the mobo from my first Windows 8 Pro Slate to put into this dual screen Iconia shell this October ...
So it is not just all Windows 8 fever, for Microsoft also have the Metro and touch flavoured Office 365, thus 2012 is not only the most important year in history for followers of the Mayan Calendar, it is also THE make or break year for the Redmond clan.
In a world of free to use Google docs and even sky drive connected free office apps you have to ask is there place on your surface table for a paid for office suite? Well the answer is hell yes, for although we all dabble in Google docs and similar free to use office imitators when I an’ I need to get some serious work done, crunch some serious numbers or impress at some crucial presentation we all turn for reassurance to olde faithful and that would be Microsoft office. And so will business, education and millions of future Booker and Pulitzer prize hopefuls.
The one thing Microsoft are better, did I say better , I meant best at is creating both a need and place for their products on your desk, a perceived obligation on your part to use their software over rivals . This has been true since his great benevolence Mr Gates first plonked a rehashed cpm disk on some Big Blue head honcho’s desk and got that software royalty contract signed… Could IBM have gone with someone else of course, just like I could be typing this in Google docs , or blogger but I am doing so in Microsoft Office 2013 or 365 as will be known.
Releasing alongside Windows 8, free on Windows RT devices and with a 5 machine license model it is going to be a win win win situation for Redmond. How will the Cupertino fathership respond? That's the fun now isn't it?
It also helps that even in preview office 365 is a solid product the speed, reliability, familiarity and the added surface layer ( !) that Windows 8 touch and pen input brings really is going to rocket not only the Office 365 suite but also the Windows 8 slate and surface form factor ahead of all rivals . Business and Education alone have been waiting for a product like Office 365 and Windows 8 eagerly since they first swiped their first disappointed swipe over their iPads realising it was for consumption and not serious content creation at all...
This is just a preliminary look , more to follow in the coming weeks, in the next part of this preview I will be running the full Office 365 suite using Windows 8 on the google nexus 7 ...
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