Bangalore: Microsoft, in an attempt to strengthen its hold on the workplace software market and to take a lead in the areas of mobile and cloud computing, unveiled its latest version of the Office on Monday. Labeled as Office 2013, it is being looked upon as one of the most ambitious release form Microsoft in the recent past. A lot is on stake for Microsoft with arch rivals Google Inc. and Apple pushing their guns to penetrate into the workplace software market that has been Microsoft’s territory for a very long time now proving to be its single biggest profit driver.

With an improved appearance and touch interface Microsoft is primarily eyeing the rapidly growing market of tablets and other touch screen devices. Apart from the introduction of the new interface in the latest version of the Office, the core highlight of Microsoft’s latest release embraces Cloud Computing and integrates with Skype that lets users collaborate on documents through video conferencing.

Some of the key features of the fifteenth edition of the Office are: