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More information is becoming available about what will be in Office 2013 (aka Office 15). It's becoming clear that, although there are incremental improvements for PC users, this is all about the tablet market and the cloud.

Traditional purchasing licences will be available, but Microsoft are very clearly moving in the direction of a per user per month SaaS offering, with data stored on their SkyDrive Cloud to make your files available across all your devices. You will even be able to pick up where you finished off editing last across devices.

A significant proportion of the usability improvements are aimed at ease of use on tablets, including reader views for Word and PowerPoint and improved stylus support.

It will be interesting to see the impact of Office 2013 and Windows 8 tablets on the corporate market, many of whom are reluctant to allow iPads to be used and would rather have the comfort of a more traditional IT environment and the ability to "produce" using Office, rather than just "consume", which is the strength of the iPad.

Any comments/thoughts?