Microsoft readies June preview of its full featured Office apps coming to its Windows, Education Stores

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MIcrosoft had a lot of news today and they also released that they will be making full featured Apps of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, available through the Windows store.

 

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"Microsoft will begin testing in June preview versions of its full-featured Office apps,which will be downloadable and updatable from its Windows and Education Stores.

While Windows and new Surface hardware were the headliners of today's Microsoft Education event in New York City, Microsoft also revealed some new Office applications and services.

As has been rumored for the last few months, Microsoft is rolling out full-featured versions of a number of its Office desktop applications, which the company has packaged up using its Desktop Bridge (codenamed "Centennial") to make them available for download from the Windows 10 Store and Microsoft Store for Education.

The first three Office applications which will be available this way are Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. They'll be available to students, teachers, and administrators who are Office 365 Education subscribers to test starting next month."

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