The company CEO Steve Ballmer said that it is the "most ambitious release of Microsoft Office" of history, at a ceremony held in the auditorium City View shopping center in that city The Metreon California.
Microsoft focused its demonstration model Office for tablets in which their traditional Word or PowerPoint are handled with the fingertips or with a digital pen and because of its integration with the Internet, the documents are stored by default in the cloud.
The new Office, which is not revealed his name and date of release, will require a user account to make use of the benefits of the cloud so that you can access the working documents from any device Windows 8, either mobile phone or tablet PC.
Programs Word, Excel, Outlook, OneNote and PowerPoint become a Windows application environment, with a simpler design in which the icons are minimized and are activated with the fingertip.
In Word, for example, debuted a reading system that adapts the documents to the device type and becomes an intuitive task insert images, adjusting the size and location.
Skype and the agenda are accessible directly from applications so that, for example, Excel can auto columns of information with contact data.
The trial version of "Modern Office" as Ballmer called it, is available today for customers through the website office.com / preview.
The company also showed a 80-inch touch screen designed for demonstrations, business meetings and videoconferences in which the Office can make presentations and modify them on the fly and works with Windows 8.
Ballmer emphasized the potential of that screen but still have acknowledged that "working to lower your price" and make it attractive for consumption.
The CEO stressed that Microsoft is in a time of renewal as the one experienced in 1995 with the version "vibrant and exciting" Windows and Office in years.
Microsoft officially launched Windows 8 in October, the month for which is expected to unveil all the details of its new line of products adapted to the new operating system.
