Microsoft Releases Office 2013 in Nigeria

Microsoft has announced the availability of Office 2013 in Nigeria, the next iteration of the company’s flagship Office product line for consumers. Office 2013 has been designed to work with both touch and a mouse, and works seamlessly in the cloud giving the user an unmatched on- and offline experience.

According to the Office Division Group Lead for Microsoft West, East and Central Africa and Indian Ocean Islands, Mr. Marc Israel, Office, 2013 makes the end user more productive in both a work and home environment.

He said, “With Office you can continue working offline, while the integration with cloud technologies allows you to sync your documents seamlessly allowing you to be far more productive.

Cloud technologies are fast becoming part of everyday life, which is why Microsoft’s Office 365 Home Premium makes sense for the African market. Office 365 Home Premium, one of the offerings within Office 2013, is a cloud service designed for busy households and people juggling ever-increasing work and family responsibilities.”
He added that the new offering of Office 2013 includes the latest and most complete set of Office applications which works across up to five devices, including Windows tablets, PCs and Macs; and comes with extra SkyDrive storage and Skype calling at an affordable rate of rate of N12,800 for an annual subscription.

Speaking at the worldwide launch of Office 365 Home Premium early in the year, the Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft, Mr. Steve Ballmer, highlighted that it marked the next big step in Microsoft’s transformation to a devices and services business.

Ballmer had said, “This is so much more than just another release of Office. This is Office reinvented as a consumer cloud service with all the full-featured Office applications people know and love, together with impressive new cloud and social benefits.

Microsoft also announced it will now deliver many new features and services to the cloud first, transforming the company’s traditional three-year release cycle. Now, new features and services stream to subscribers as soon as they are ready, keeping subscribers always up to date while eliminating the hassles of upgrading.

Speaking also, Author and Small Business Owner, David Kroenke, stated that customers believe that the new iteration of Microsoft Office allows them to focus on growing their businesses, rather than IT functions.
“If there’s one thing I’ve learned in all my years of doing this, it’s that no small business knows how to run a server.
 Furthermore, they don’t want to run a server. They want to run a business. With Office 365, you can manage your employees, not your computers.

“It has streamlined communications tremendously. It’s so easy to communicate now. I can turn my computer on and see when China’s online. With just one click, I can ask them a question. Office 365 makes the world more accessible,” he said.