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Microsoft is also getting props for advancements in cloud functionality. While Microsoft will continue selling Office via an upfront, perpetual licence - the product branded Office2013 - it will also let people buy the suite as a cloud-based subscription service, which carries the existing Office365 brand.
Other cloud enhancements include tighter integration with the company's SkyDrive cloud-storage service, which will let Office users save files online, making them accessible from multiple devices. Office will also save settings and preferences to the cloud, so they can be synchronised across a user's different computers. A feature called Office on Demand will even let users stream a full version of Office on the fly to PCs they don't own for use during specific, one-time sessions.
"The cloud is a big theme in this release. We see Microsoft's cloud strategy for Office evolving and taking another big step," Webster said.
full-featured versions of the Office applications on each machine. Documents can be stored online, however, and the product comes with20G bytes of SkyDrive storage.
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