Microsoft develops Win8 version of Office new application

Computer Store News: Microsoft Office is developing new applications, one of which is the Office Reader for Windows 8 platform. A number of sources revealed to The Verge that in an internal Microsoft conference, Microsoft Kirk Koenigsbauer demonstrated these new applications and what is known as Gemini updates.

Office Reader is a Windows 8 style application that supports web pages, Office documents, PDFs, e-books, and textbooks. The initial release includes documentation libraries, sources, and recommendations. Koenigsbauer demonstrates PDF document rearrangement and touch support, and interactive content support for textbook documentation.

Office Reader also provides digital pen support, support for highlighting notes & ndash; Office team also cooperates with Bing to provide integration of Internet service data, you can choose keywords to get the name and location of the search engine. And other details.

Koenigsbauer also demonstrated real-time document editing for Office Web Apps, the new OneNote Capture service, which is described as "Read Later" service (currently Windows 8.1 has a separate reading list application). There is also an Office Lens lens application for Windows Phone that implements the OCR function (Optical Character Recognition).

These Gemini updates are expected to be available in 2014 at the earliest. In addition, Microsoft announced the Windows 8 version of the Modern UIOffice application on Build 2013.