Microsoft Releases Touch-Based Office Apps For Windows 10

[exfileme]

You can still use a mouse and keyboard if needed.

Microsoft Releases Touch-Based Office Apps For Windows 10 : Read more

 

[chicofehr]

Now bring the 2003 clean look for the desktop mode or atleast an option.

 

[red77star]

Windows 10 Touch App (Office) is not a lot cleaner than Win32 but a lot dumber and limited to what phone can do. I guess Microsoft doesn't get that my PC is not a giant Phone. What a epic failure.

 

[alextheblue]

Nice try, Red. Office will be capable of traditional productivity as well as touch-based usage. Troll elsewhere.

Looks good for a beta. Thanks for the preview and assessment, Kevin.

 

[jvv]

This looks deadful. The ribbon bar takes up more space than before vertically and contains 20% of the functionality. If you want to simplify, how about getting rid of everything shown in blue? That would free up enough space to possibly make it usable on a laptop with 1366x768 resolution.

I can't stand the wasted space atop every email message I preview in outlook and it looks like they will be expanding this trend.