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Microsoft Releases Office 365 for Education for FREE

Microsoft Office 365 Logo

Microsoft Office 365 Logo (Photo credit: Microsoft Sweden)

REDMOND, Wash. —  Microsoft just announced it has released Office 365 for Education. The award-winning Office suite, which includes SharePoint and Lync, will now be available to all education levels, including students. What’s the catch? All students, teacher, and faculty will get their hands on Office 365 for Education, allowing them to be more productive than ever thanks to the power of the cloud.

“Office 365 is a hit with big and small companies alike,” said Kirk Koenigsbauer, corporate vice president of the Microsoft Office Division. “I’m delighted to welcome Lowe’s, Burger King, Japan Airlines and others that have chosen Office 365.”

Microsoft Office OneNote 2007

Microsoft Office OneNote 2007 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

The announcement comes just days after several prestigious colleges and universities around the country started adopting Office 365 as their go-to solution. The new solution, dubbed Office 365 for Education, will be available to all education fields in the form of free versions and paid versions. The free flavor of Office includes Exchange Online, Lync Online, SharePoint Online and Office Web Apps. Paid versions will deliver greater storage capacity and specific perks. Office 365 for Education will be replacing Live@edu.

The Microsoft Office Core Applications

The Microsoft Office Core Applications (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

“Getting the world’s best technology in the hands of our students and teachers is critical to improving educational outcomes and making sure students are prepared for college and career,” said Anthony Salcito, vice president of Worldwide Education for Microsoft. “With schools’ ever-tightening budgets, Office 365 for education enables them to deliver new and innovative technology in the cloud that will modernize teaching and learning practices, at no cost.”

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Office 15 and Windows 8

 

Though there has been a lot of attention on Windows 8 lately, it looks like the new version of Microsoft Office, Office 15, is coming to the limelight.

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In this screenshot of a revamped Outlook, Microsoft seems to be implementing the Metro UI on Office. The ribbon seems to be minimized, so it can’t be seen if the tab elements have been redesigned. Office 15 has been reported to be released as early as 2012 by some sources, but some say that it will be released later.

As earlier reported by Premier Microsoft, Microsoft Office will also be able to run on ARM-based Windows 8 tablets, and there is increasing evidence that Office may soon be released for iOS. A release of Microsoft Office on iOS devices would open up a whole new market for their Microsoft Office suite.

System Requirements for Office 2010 ( Home and Student)

  This article is part of List of System Requirements for Microsoft Software

The following are the System Requirements for Office 2010 ( Home and Student).

 

 

                 System Requirements:

Component

Requirement

Computer and Processor

 500 MHz or faster
Memory 256 MB RAM; 512 recommended for certain features
Hard Disk 3.0 GB available disk space
Display 1024×576 or higher resolution
Operating System Windows XP SP3( 32-bit), Windows 7, Windows Vista SP1, Windows Server 2003( SP2)(and MSXML 6.0 for 32 bit ), Windows Server 2008 or later
Graphics DirectX 9.0c graphics card with 64 MB or more video memory
Additional Requirements IE6 or later, IE7 or later for broadcast presentations. Internet Connection
Windows Live ID for certain features. Speech recognition requires a microphone or other device.

Source: Office.com

Tech News this Week: Windows 8 on ARM, Office on iPad, Windows Store

Welcome to Premier Microsoft’s Tech News recap. Here you will find a quick overview of the things that made the news this week.

Windows 8 on ARM has been detailed to include the Desktop ( contrary to popular analysis) and will also include 4 applications of the Office Suite.

Microsoft denied Office on iPad rumors, despite growing popular opinion to the contrary. The company is expected to follow its surprising growing collection of iOS apps.

Store landing page, with Spotlight category containing 5 featured apps, and Games category cut off at right edge of screen, containing several game appsMobile World Congress, February 29, 2011, will be the launch of the Windows Store and the Windows 8 Consumer Preview. The Preview will be publicly available via Microsoft.