Microsoft launches new Office Next blog, public beta of Office 2013 expected soon

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Published on July 14, 2012

published on July 14, 2012

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Microsoft has launched a new blog centered around the company’s upcoming Office 2013 productivity suite called Office Next blog. The blog, similar to the Building Windows 8 blog, goes over improvements, designs, and feedback on the upcoming suite.

“Welcome to the Office Next blog. I’m really excited to kick off this conversation and connect you with the engineers who are building future releases of Office-here, they’ll discuss the improvements we make, the designs we choose and the data and feedback that inform our decisions,” the new blog states in its first post. It only makes sense to have a blog dedicated to the development of Office 2013, even though Microsoft is a bit late to bring this blog about. Windows 8 had the Building Windows 8 blog, which has proven to be a great means of offering feedback as well as tracking changes being made to the operating system.

A recent report by USAToday suggests that Microsoft will finally unveil Office 2013, the company’s next generation office productivity suite, to the public on July the 16th. Office 15, or Office 2013, was originally rumored to hit a Consumer Preview stage later this month.

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Radu Tyrsina

Radu Tyrsina has been a Windows fan ever since he got his first PC, a Pentium III (a monster at that time). For most of the kids of his age, the Internet was an amazing way to play and communicate with others, but he was deeply impressed by the flow of information and how easily you can find anything on the web. Prior to founding Windows Report, this particular curiosity about digital content enabled him to grow a number of sites that helped hundreds of millions reach faster the answer they're looking for.