(From the left Kelsey Hartigan-Go, Aziza Mondoñedo , Gabriel Villanueva, Karrie
Ilagan, Janice Crisostomo-Villanueva, Tovia Va’aelua)
February 5, 2013, Manila, Philippines, — Microsoft Philippines
announced today the availability of the New Office, a reinvention of the company’s
flagship Office product line for consumers, education and businesses.
The new Office is a cloud service designed for the modern day users whose devices
used for work and play have merged. It provides the latest and most complete set
of Office applications such as Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel, among others.
The Office 365 Home Premium comes with extra SkyDrive capacity (Microsoft’s free
online storage), and 60 minutes of free Skype world minutes. Priced at 3,499 SRP,
the Office 365 Home Premium is available through one-year subscription which customers
may now install for a total of 10 devices (five PCs & five tablets).
“Today, we mark the next big step in Microsoft’s transformation to devices and services,
as we introduce and take you to your modern office—an Office that goes beyond the
four corners of a room, an Office that is accessible wherever you are,” said Karrie
Ilagan, Managing Director, Microsoft Philippines. “This is Office re-imagined as
a cloud service with all the full-featured Office applications people know and love,
together with impressive new cloud and social benefits built for the modern day
consumer.”
Microsoft also announced it will now deliver many new features and services to the
cloud, 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.
The next exciting launch from Microsoft Philippines is the Office 365 Cloud services
for the Enterprise and Education in the middle of this year. This means that organizations
are able to take full advantage of the multiple options available to them to keep
their productivity solutions whether within their own premises, with local Hosting
Partners, with Microsoft Office 365 services or, a combination of all. All this
aims to deliver the Cloud services as well as our traditional solutions on the customer’s
terms.
The adoption of Office 365 reached educational institutions as well—which also builds
on free social and productivity services available to Filipinos today with email
on Outlook.com, storage on SkyDrive and voice and video calling through Skype.
Transforming the way you work
“The new Microsoft Office allows you to get things done at home, school and work
through any device, anytime and anywhere,” said Tovia Va’aelua, Microsoft Office
Division Lead, Microsoft Philippines. “Before, Office used to belong to your machine
now it belongs to you and works across all your devices.”
Kelsey Hartigan-Go, former VP of De La Salle University’s IT Department and the
current CIO of SM Prime Holdings, shared that the capabilities of how the New Office
has successfully helped increase the productivity of his businesses. “Microsoft
has helped strengthen our IT infrastructure with the New Office and this has been
very helpful in the growth of our business. Aside from Office, we have been using
Microsoft productivity solutions such as Lync, Exchange and SharePoint. We are excited
about the New Office because it offers mobility, cloud and control features built
for the enterprise.”
Microsoft Student Ambassador Gabriel Villanueva from Treston International College
shared his experience with the New Office, explaining how it helps him with long
documents and even on his thesis. He said, “The New Office Word application has
helped me a lot as both a student and a young blogger. The New Word enables me to
focus on the right section of the document so that I can go to the desired chapter
or outline of my thesis without navigating through all the pages. In effect, reading
long documents has become an even more enjoyable and hassle-free experience with
the New Office.”
In a recent global survey, nearly 60 percent of people said they don’t have the
time to do the things they want to do, and more than 80 percent said they could
save one or more hours a day if they were better organized. The New Office is designed
to help people be more productive from virtually anywhere and find the flexibility
to do the things they want. Since the New Office is a cloud-connected you can now
access your foiles on the go through the built in capability of SkyDrive, Microsoft’s
free online storage. Thus, allowing users to be mobile and more productive.
“As a mom and entrepreneur, I’m never completely at home or completely at work,”
shares Janice Crisostomo-Villanueva, Microsoft Office and Windows Ambassador and
founder of Mommymundo.com and Mercato. “The New Office allows me to work around
my kids’ schedules so I can coordinate errands while at their school functions and
still hit my deadlines at work. The New Office has transformed the way I live.”
Likewise, the New Office was built for the dynamics of the Enterprise, where users
will have more control on how they deploy this to their companies. The New Office
builds on its prior successes of security, control and management.
About Office 365 Home Premium
Office 365 Home Premium is available in 162 markets in 21 languages and includes
the following:
The latest and most complete set of Office applications: Word, Excel, PowerPoint,
OneNote, Outlook, Publisher and Access
One license for the entire household to use Office on up to five devices, including
Windows tablets, PCs or Macs, and Office on Demand available from any Internet-connected
PC2
An additional 20 GB of SkyDrive cloud storage,nearly three times the amount available
with a free SkyDrive account
60 free Skype world calling minutes per month to call mobile phones, landlines or
PCsaround the world3
Future upgrades,so you always use the latest time-saving technology
People can learn more about Office 365 Home Premium or try it free for 30 days at
http://microsoft.com.ph/office/
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About Microsoft
Microsoft (Nasdaq “MSFT”) is the worldwide leader in software, services and solutions
that help people and businesses realize their full potential.
Microsoft Philippines, the local subsidiary of Microsoft Corporation, has been constantly
bringing innovation and making its technology available to Filipino businesses and
individuals since 1995. As a committed and trusted partner in nation-building, Microsoft
Philippines has made it its mission to fuel growth and healthy communities, as well
as transform locally-based businesses and empower them to compete in the global
economy.
AngatPinoy, AngatNegosyo. AngatPilipinas.
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Jonica Pena
Marketing & Corporate Communications Manager, Microsoft Philippines
0917-8168511
jonipena@microsoft.com
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