Metro-style WinRT applications are certainly a major feature for Windows 8. So what's Office 15 (which might be called Office 2012 or Office 2013 depending on when it ships) going to do for Windows 8 and Metro?



From Techradar:

What it's not going to do is replace all the familiar desktop apps like Word and Excel with touch-first Metro-only equivalents.

We now know there will be desktop versions of the key Office apps. But whether it's x86 or WOA, the desktop Office applications won't be all you get in Office. Office 15 is going to be a mix of desktop and Metro where appropriate.

Yes, we'll see Office reimagined for Metro; what Steve Ballmer called "Office Metro style" at the Financial Analysts Meeting last autumn.

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