Microsoft will release Surface with Windows 8 on October 26!

Surface and Windows 8 will be available on…26/ October 2012!

Earlier this month, Microsoft promised to ship Windows 8 sometime in October. Today, it announced the official date of the operating system’s arrival: October 26, 2012.

Speaking during Microsoft’s annual sales meeting, Steven Sinofsky, president of the company’s Windows division said,

Microsoft Office 2013: Next generation Office suite.

The Good Old MS Office is done and done.

Welcome to Office 2013, Microsoft’s new age Office suite.

Welcome to Nxt-Gen office. 

With Windows 8 almost here, it was inevitable that Microsoft would refresh its Office suite of productivity to reflect the style of its new OS.

Microsoft has done just that. 

Yes, Microsoft Office 2013 is officially relived along with a new free Consumer Preview available for download.

Touch for good!

This new  Office suite is to be launch with Windows 8, hence Office 2013 has been designed with touch-based devices in mind, i.e., it will work well on tablets, smart phones, and touch screen PCs.

And, the standard mouse and keyboard-operated PCs aren’t forgotten either.

But the downside is that