14 | Business World Magazine |
May 2013
SOFTWARE SOFT-SELL
CEASING
For those who haven’t purchased, but pre-
ferred to take advantage of the free trial pe-
riod associated with the launch of Micro-
soft’s Office 2013 suite, it is time to pony-up.
Office 2013 offers sufficient advantages over
previous offerings. In the new version, Word,
Excel, Powerpoint and Outlook have been
modified to better function with computers
deploying touch-screen technology. Office
2013 works with smart-phones, tablets as
Whether it is the increasing market penetration of its famed Office software
suite and its new line of surface tablets, or the announcing of new specialty
store openings, or all its seducing of gamers fervently fixated on the soon-
come Xbox One, May has been a busy for month for Microsoft. The tech giant
has created gargantuan buzz, largely compelled by this month’s unveiling of
the new Xbox, but there’s been other significant news.
