Microsoft has denounced a touch-ready chronicle of Office, the ultimate chronicle of the company's market-leading capability program suite.
In San Francisco, Steve Ballmer described Office 2013 as the firm's "most desirous release" to date.
The program is primed for mobile devices, clouded cover computing, and amicable networking.
Office is the globe's many renouned capability application, with a billion users worldwide.
It is moreover Microsoft's key income driver, and gripping it uninformed is how the definite intends to sustain its marketplace lead.
Throughout his hour-long protest on Monday, Mr Ballmer and Kirk Koenigsbauer, vice-president of Microsoft's Office division, highlighted how the program had been blending to keep gait with technology changes.
Office 2013 is entirely touch-ready, as is Windows 8, the company's ultimate working system, and its new inscription computer, Surface, that is approaching to be existing in October.
Surface will strike stores a few two-and-a-half years after Apple launched its iPad onto the market, and analysts say the power of Office gives Microsoft its most appropriate luck at attainment a real foothold in the inscription market.
For the initial time, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook are all manageable to touch-screen controls - taps, swipes, and pinch-and-zoom may be used inside of documents, files and presentations.
The user-experience is written to be more "immersive," "visceral" and "multimedia-rich" compared to progressing chronicle of Office, Mr Ballmer said.
Documents, slides, and presentations may be evident up on mobile screens, drawn on, highlighted or annotated with a digital pen, stylus or even a finger.
Skype, paid for for $8.5bn (5.4bn) in 2011, and Yammer, a amicable network for businesses, are being rolled in to Office: live, multi-party conversations and meetings may be combined with Skype video and accessed inside of Word, PowerPoint, or Outlook.
New "People Cards" add an individual's digital "presence" - a photo, options to email, present message, phone or video chat, and wake up feeds from the amicable networks Facebook and Linkedin.
Skydrive automatically saves and syncs all Office papers in an online, cloud-based storage service. This creates files and calm combined in Office existing on urge opposite computing devices.
In 2011, Microsoft Office was value $14bn, more than half the company's profits, according to Michael Silver, a investigate researcher at Gartner.
"There doesn't appear to be a lot of contest here since Microsoft still has over 90% of the market," Mr Silver told the BBC.
While reduction costly and giveaway online alternatives to Office similar to Google Apps and Zoho have turn available, no company is receiving divided poignant marketplace share from Microsoft yet, he said.
"Microsoft has been competing against giveaway for over 10 years with the open source products and in conditions of inexpensive with Google."
"But the compatibility issues... [have] been a bigger jump for people than a lot of people would have approaching and it has kept the immeasurable majority of users in the Microsoft camp," Mr Silver noted.
Andy McLoughlin, co-founder of Huddle, a clouded cover computing start-up in San Francisco that competes with Microsoft's Sharepoint program for online calm management, sees Office as widespread in the workplace, but unsatisfactory elsewhere.
"Office is still seen as the de facto capability apartment is to workplace," he agreed.
"I regard it's got a few years yet. Microsoft is still flattering intelligent in conditions of the way that they permit the program for large companies and so there's a specific grade of lock-in."
"When you speak about consumers, though, we do not unequivocally know any people who, unless they have a looseness by work, would keep Office on their machine.
"Why outlay several hundred dollars on program when you are unequivocally usually using one or 2% of the functionality?"
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