Microsoft Office comes to Android tablets starting today

 

After a three-month preview phase, you can start downloading the final versions of Word, Excel and PowerPoint to Android tablets sometime today.

After three months of waiting, Microsoft Office will officially launch for Android tablets today, bringing Word, PowerPoint and Excel to these midsize devices. The apps work much like the iOS versions, letting you create and edit documents, presentations and spreadsheets that will sync with OneDrive so you can work from anywhere.

Project Spartan is Microsoft's new way to browse

At Microsoft's event today in Redmond, the company unveiled a new concept Web browser it calls Project Spartan. Joe Belfiore, VP of the operating systems group, gave a brief tour of some of the new features and how it would work on all Windows devices.

Every Announcement From Microsoft's Windows 10 Event

 
Microsoft's Windows 10 event not only included tons of announcements about the new operating system, but also revealed Xbox One game streaming, how DirectX 12 affects gaming, and Microsoft's hologram project. If you missed the live stream of the event, here's everything you need to know. For more details about each announcement, be sure to check out their corresponding article and video.

Microsoft's 'Windows 10: The Next Chapter' event

On January 21, Microsoft will stake out the future of Windows, giving us a glimpse of what its software will look like on mobile devices. A successor to Internet Explorer may also be in store.
  Also on January 21, Microsoft is expected to reveal more information about Windows 10 for phones and tablets and detail how the universal operating system will change across devices.

Microsoft Windows 10 Spartan Browser Details Emerge

 

New details have been revealed for Microsoft’s Windows 10 browser, codenamed Spartan.

Sources familiar with Microsoft’s plans for its next operating system have told The Verge Spartan will include “features not found in rival browsers.” For instance, Spartan will support inking -- the ability for users to make notes on web pages with a stylus and share them with other users.