Introducing "The New Office" Office 365: Transform the Way You Work

We’re going to focus today’s conversation on why you should upgrade to Office 2013. We will discuss what the new Office is, business value Office 2013, benefits of Open Volume Licensing, which version licensing option is best for you, and the killer features in Office 2013.

You have been hearing a lot about the new Office.The new Office encompassesboth the cloud services and perpetual products. Whether you are a small organization with limited IT resources or a large organization with advanced IT needs, the new Office has solutions optimized for business size and IT needs. For cloud services, Office 365 is a cloud subscription that gives you access to Office applications plus additional cloud services like business-grade email, shared calendar, internal and external sites, and videoconferencing. For the perpetual licensing, you get a perpetual right to use Office on-premises.You have the ability to choose the version of Office that best fits your organization’s size and needs.

The new Office has delivered significant innovation across five key areas…. The new Office works great across nearly all your devices- you get a more immersive, touch-optimized experience. We’ve also modernized the entire Office user interface, with a clean, fluid experience that works great with mouse & keyboard, touch or pen… and as you would expect, it really shines on Windows 8 - We discussed how Cloud brings a transformational experience with Office as a service - roaming setting and documents, always up-to-date and easy install. Social –the new Office was built to enable people to work in new, more productive ways.The people card is a great example - it aggregates information for all your contacts - including Facebook & LinkedIn - so you can get one unified view. The people card also acts as a launch point for all they ways you want to communicate -you can quickly schedule a meeting, send an email, start an IM or voice & video chat- or host a multiparty HD video conference with Lync.The new Office will even connect Lync and Skype users, enabling you to IM and talk to millions of Skype users right from Office. New Scenarios - we have new and improved ways to work more efficiently and naturally like… (just choose 1 or 2) [Make this more about touch and use Win8 examples]Digital note-taking lets you use what feels most natural to you — take notes with touch, pen or keyboard, or use them together and switch easily back and forth.The Read Mode in Word provides an easy-to-navigate reading experience that automatically adjusts for large and small screens. You can zoom in and out, stream videos within documents, and use touch to turn pages. PowerPoint has a new Presenter View that privately shows you your current and upcoming slides, how long you’ve been talking, and speaker notes in a single glance –while your presentation is displayed full screen to your audience. Simplified ITOffice deployment has been totally reimagined. Office can now run side-by-side with older versions of Office which avoids the most common compatibility issues. And we’ve simplified the management experience across Exchange, SharePoint and Lync in Office 365, with a new and improved admin console.Microsoft is the only company that can offer this breadth of productivity solutions, integrated workloads, and form factors - all within a familiar Office experience.

<Choose the scenarios that best fit your customers>Old Hardware: If you are usingan old PC or running old servers and feeling the pains of security and costs, there is the potential to:Reduce security risks by upgrading the company’s hardware Upgrading your servers or leveraging cloud services, will help to relieve the concerns of reliability and availability issuesOffice 2013 works great on Windows 8 devices. These devices combined with Office allow your workforce to be productive either in the Office or on the road. You get the most value from Office Professional Plus 2013 in combination with these Microsoft server solutions: Exchange provides business email, calendar, and contacts for your PC, phone, tablet, or browser. SharePoint provides a new way to work together by sharing files and information, connecting through social tools, and searching for content and experts. Lync provides business-grade presence, instant messaging, audio and video calling, and online meetings. Growing Needs: If you are a customer with fast-growing businesses,multiple offices, but still have limited IT staff, then the new Office has solutions to meet your needs. With the new Office…IT can deliver the latest capabilities to their users, easily and quicklyIT can deliver these capabilities with limited IT budgetOffice 2013 through Open Volume Licensing is scalable and can give you a turn-key solution for productivity that supports your growing needs. Open Volume Licensing allows you to simplify deployment by using a single image instead of manually installing a license key code for every PC in your organization. With the different volume licensing models, you have the ability to ease your cash flow with the option to make annual paymentsOld Office: If you are using Office 2003 or older and are concerned about end of support or are experiencing compatibility issues, then you should upgrade to the new Office. The new Office has solutions that are optimized to meet your business’ size and IT needs. Office 2013 will allow you to… Eliminate users’ frustrations with limited capabilities of older versions Provide support to your mobile workforce Office is very different since the last time they purchased Office more than 6-8 years ago. Office is so much more than just Word, PowerPoint, and Excel, Office is now beyond individual productivity. New features and capabilities in Office 2013 enable your employees to access their information from virtually anywhere, work together from remote locations, project a professional image in meetings and documents, and feel that they have secure and reliable software that enables them to do their job effectively.

Office 2013 has a number of killer features that I am excited to tell you more about.

First off let’s start with the new Office experience. With every major release of Office, the goal is to make it more usable, more enjoyable and delightful. [Initial view] The new Outlook feels dramatically more modern, fluid and polished than the version you use today, all that while retaining the familiar layout and tools. The performance of the new UI is stunningly smooth and responsive. To give maximum space to your inbox, the Ribbon is now minimized by default, but is just a click-away. A new Touch Mode adds a little more space around buttons an icons, so you can tap them more easily in a touch-enabled screen. It also adds a set of Quick Action icons on the right border, for easy access with your right hand fingers. The Navigation Bar has also been improved to take less space. And now when you hover on calendar or people … [Build]You get a Quick Peek into your calendar, people or tasks without ever leaving your inbox. You can check upcoming appointments, search for someone, while staying in the context of the email you’re reading or composing. Another great new feature, that helps you stay on task, is the Inline reply thatlets you compose while staying in context. In summary, the new Office experience was designed to help you stay focused on the task at hand, whether is writing a document, building a presentation, creating a spreadsheet or composing an email.

The new Office allows you to take full advantage of the touch-optimized, immersive Windows 8 experience. The modern look and smooth experience of the new Office seems alive and makes work more enjoyable with touch-enabled Windows 8 devices. The new Presenter View in the new PowerPoint running on a Windows 8 tablet – this is like your new cockpit while presenting. Here you can use your fingertips to pinch & zoom into a particular slide or navigate back & forth through your presentation. You can use a stylus to make annotations on the slide, highlight text or use it as a ‘laser pointer’ during your presentation. This new Presenter View gives you a fully immersive ‘control panel’ to make more impactful and enjoyable presentations. The new Office works great with not only with touch, but also with pen and as you can expect, mouse and keyboard.

To capitalize on the great touch and pen experience, OneNote has been reimagined for Windows 8. You have a fully immersive, touch-enabled experience with gestures and contextual controls instead of the traditional menu-based navigation. The Radial Menu is a great example of the innovation happening with Windows 8. Radial Menus are context aware menus at your fingertips. If you select a portion of text, the ‘Font’ radial menu will be initially enabled next to the text. When you tap on it, it expands with a dial of options, choose font and the dial gets updated with relevant options, touch font size and get a ‘speed dial’ to quickly choose your font size. Radial Menus, brings commands to your fingertips and helps you stay on task. The OneNote Windows 8 app also takes full advantage of all your device capabilities. Right from the radial menu you can select the integrated camera in your tablet and capture a whiteboard, or any images that will enrich your notes.

You have the ability to automatically save your documents to the cloud in SkyDrive, SkyDrive Pro or SharePoint online, and that your personal settings like custom dictionary, background and list of most recently used files, now roam with you. [Initial screen]You can see that Office remembers my list of recently used documents. [Build]When I choose to open a previously saved document, Word remembered where I left off, like a bookmark. This feature comes handy, especially when working across multiple documents or long documents. This feature also works on PowerPoint. [Build]As I mentioned before, Office now saves to the cloud by default, to SkyDrive Pro or SharePoint online as a business user, or, to your personal SkyDrive account. You still get the option to save to your computer’s hard drive as well.

The new PDF Reflowfeature in Word allows you to open a PDF file directly from Word. Word now makes PDF content act like familiar Word documents. Use content from PDFs easily and make it look great.

Office 2013 tries to make Excel more efficient and easier to use. New features such as Excel Flash fill leverage Excel’s ability to recognize patterns and autocomplete cells without any formulas or macros.

Recommended charts allow you to easily visualize and analyze your data. Excel reviews the selected data and recommends the best chart based on patterns in your data. You can quickly look at different charts to find the one that best fits your data. With Recommended charts and quick peeks, you can quickly and effortlessly format your data.

Power View in Excel allows you to discover new insights at the speed of thought with highly interactive, familiar data exploration, visualization, and presentation for all levels of skills. Power View lets you compile data, charts, and graphs into a single view to bring your data to life.The new features in Excel enable you to work smarter.

The new SharePoint features a number of new social networking capabilities that allow your employees to stay connected and productive. Here you can see the SharePoint Newsfeed, which enables you to speak your mind, share ideas and get answers in real time. You get hashtags (#), ‘likes’ and the ability to mention people (@) in a post. You can follow people, document & sites, so you always know what is going on with your colleagues and projects. You can even create an Outlook task, right from your Newsfeed, so you can effectively track an action item. * These new social features enable you to get things done.*Requires SharePoint and Lync Server connection or SharePoint Online and Lync Online connection

Social is more than newsfeeds and likes, social is about empowering people to communicate and collaborate more effectively. With the new Office you get pervasive social feeds and click-to-communicate capabilities. These is enabled by the people-card that pops whenever you hover over a contact’s name. [Initial screen]In this example we have a Word document with comments. The new Word supports threaded comments, which is a great improvement to collaborating with documents. Each comment has an author, and as you can notice, rich presence is associated to a name, so in real time, you know the availability of that contact and can decide how to interact. Just by hovering on the presence status you get the pervasive people-card. [Build]The people-card aggregates enterprise information like email & calendar history, with social networking feeds like Facebook & LinkedIn in a single place, so you get a unified view of people. Here you can see under “What’s new” the Facebook updates for this contact. But the people card is also a single launch point for all communication & collaboration modalities available in Office: like schedule a meeting, send an email, start an IM, start a voice & video call.

It is not uncommon for business to spend a lot of time interacting with each other on meetings. With a potentially dispersed work or client base, dealing with remote meetings can be a challenging experience. The new Lync gives you a great meeting experience with multiparty HD video conferencing, real-time note taking, and document sharing capabilities. Here is a great example of the new Lync meeting experience. At the top you can see the new Lync Video Gallery, which makes meetings more interactive, by displaying a continuous view of multiple HD video streams in a gallery format. The gallery shows the most relevant people in the meeting at all times by bringing the dominant speaker “in focus”. Lync supports real time document sharing, so at any time people can share a PowerPoint, Excel, Word document or anything on their desktop. A very common situation during a meeting is note taking. To enable a better meeting experience, the new Office now allows meeting participants to simultaneously, and in real-time, work on a single meeting document using a shared OneNote. This improves collaboration and reduces errors caused by later transcription and simplifying communication and follow up. *Requires Lync Server 2013 orLync Online connection

In the new Office Skype and Lync are integrated via Presence, Instant Messaging & Voice federation. That basically means that you will be able to start an IM or call your Skype contacts right from Lync and vice versa.

In today’s world, businesses need to be able to work form anywhere, work together easily, and look professional with easy and affordable technology. In this release, Microsoft has modernized Office to meet this changing world of work. Let me give you an overview of the five benefits of upgrading to Office 2013.

Businesses are no longer stationary. Mobility and devices have changed the way we work. The new Office recognizes the pervasiveness of mobility and devices in the workplace. Anywhere access capabilities give you access to your familiar Office applications across multiple devices, from PCs to smart phones to tablets.Work from virtually anywhere with access to your email, calendar, latest documents and files using familiar Office applications, optimized for use across PCs, smartphones, and tablets.With its modernized, clean, and fluid user interface that works great with touch, mouse and keyboard, or pen, Office has new and improved ways for you to work more efficiently and naturally.The new Office works great across nearly all your devices, but on Windows 8 it shines, you get a more immersive, touch-optimized experience. You will find delightful features, such as using your fingertips to pinch and zoom, in & out while presenting on PowerPoint, or pinch & zoom your Outlook calendar out, for a month view. If you are on a mobile device, Office Mobile gives you a consistent, yet platform-optimized Office experience.

The new Office makes working together easier and more effective no matter where your team is, with video conferencing, shared documents, email and calendars.With the new Office you can easily host and participate in more effective online meetings, with multiparty HD video conferencing, document sharing and real-time note taking with OneNote.Sharing a document, workbook, or presentation is now much simpler. You can share and collaborate just by sending a link to your files saved in the cloud. Manage and track only one version of your workbook. And, when it’s in the cloud, it’s backed up, so you don’t have to worry about losing your work. Site Mailboxes combine the power of Outlook, Exchange and SharePoint to create a single folder, calendar, or task list that all members of your team can access. Store team emails and links to supporting documents while managing team communications.

We understand that your customers are key to the success of your business. The new Office gives you access to professional tools that enable you to visualize your data in Excel, edit PDFs, and create highly professional documents and presentations to impress clients and drive revenue.Excel’s Recommended Charts feature offers you suggestions on different ways to visualize your data, including charts, tables, formatting options and trend analysis—all available with a single click from one easy-to-use menu.Word now makes PDF content act like familiar Word documents. Use content from PDFs easily and make it look great. Word now opens PDFs and makes content, such as paragraphs, lists and tables, act as familiar Word documents. Multimedia and graphics capabilities make it easy for you to create professional publications. Take the quality of your work to the next level—without investing more time. The easy-to-use, powerful video and photo editing tools help you add real impact to your communications, without the expense of professional fees.

Unlimited automatic product updates, no upfront infrastructure costs, and affordable monthly subscription plans make the new Office 365 an unbeatable value.The new Office is always logged-in and saves to the cloud by default. When you sign into Office you get roaming settings and quick access to your documents stored in SkyDrive, SkyDrive Pro & SharePoint online. *Data Loss Prevention tools in Office 2013 Professional Plus are about keeping business communications highlysecure while in transit. Thesedata loss prevention controls to give you the flexibility to manage the passage of sensitive information in and out of your environment. A great example is what we call, PolicyTipsthat will warn you about unintended policy violations, when sending email. Exchange scans your email & attachments, checks against centrally managed policies and will warn you about sensitive content like credit card or social security numbers. **Exchange’s Information Rights Managementcapability gives you the email and document confidentiality you need by allowing you to set permission on who can access, open, or forward your email and documents. ***Requires SharePoint Server 2013 or SharePoint Online **Requires Exchange Server 2013 or Exchange Online

The new Office gives you the power to chose which product is best for you. Office 365 provides cloud services that are optimized for size and IT needs as well as traditional Office on-premises products.

Office 365 for Developers is E3 + Project Online, will be available at SU1 not RTM