Microsoft releases Universal Office apps for Windows 10

[HEXUS]

These early builds of Word, PowerPoint and Excel are now available to download.

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[TheAnimus]

Gargh, they've taken design hints from Android.

Let's put the menu button in the hardest place to reach on your phone! It's so badly designed from a usability point of view, it might as well be an Apple product.

[GuidoLS]

Gargh, they've taken design hints from Android.

Let's put the menu button in the hardest place to reach on your phone! It's so badly designed from a usability point of view, it might as well be an Apple product.

Not intending to be that guy, but the release info pretty much excludes the word phone in the description... and fwiw, they work as described on both laptops and full sized PCs. Don't own, nor do I intend on owning, a new tablet capable or running W10 (or any other OS, for that matter), so can't comment on the touch capabilities.

[AlexKitch]

This is something that's always bugged me about smartphones, too. Why put buttons and menus at the top of the screen - the single most difficult place to press when using one hand. It's completely illogical.

[LSG501]

Maybe it's me but I use 2 hands when I'm using my phone (one to hold, the other to work on screen).... position really makes no difference to me personally.

[TheAnimus]

Not intending to be that guy, but the release info pretty much excludes the word phone in the description... and fwiw, they work as described on both laptops and full sized PCs. Don't own, nor do I intend on owning, a new tablet capable or running W10 (or any other OS, for that matter), so can't comment on the touch capabilities.

True, but they've got the screen shots.

These are apparently on the universal app stack, which is about sharing code, so you don't get such bad functionality chasms as we've seen before, and look at the concept screen shots.

That's what I'm upset about.

[snaynay]

To be fair, this is actually really awesome for the demographic its aimed towards. I wonder if it supports 365 embedded apps? (been doing some Outlook 365 App development work of late).

[GuidoLS]

I try to not get too excited or upset over betas - they're actually doing a decent job with 10, and taking user input to heart. I can't see them not doing the same with the office apps.