Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Office 2013 available now: Microsoft ditches DVDs in push for cloud subscriptions

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Microsoft is taking the wraps off its most ambitious Office project today. The software giant, synonymous with Office and Windows, is aiming to turn users over to a subscription package with its latest offering: Office 365. It's an important change for the company, but convincing users to pay an ongoing monthly or annual charge for its latest Office is going to be a hard sell, and the company is very much aware of that — treading carefully in its march towards the cloud.


A boxed copy won't include a DVD, it's online only


Starting today, boxed copies of Office 2013 and Office 365 subscriptions will be available in retail stores across 162 countries and online at Office.com. However, there's a big change this time: in the US, UK, and...


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