After describing the following version of Windows on Wednesday, Microsoft on Thursday unveiled a subsequent versions of Office: Office for Windows 10, along with the standalone Office 2016 desktop suite.

Microsoft declared that the Office for Windows 10 apps, like their counterparts on iOS and Android, will be free to use (and preinstalled) on Windows 10 phones and small tablets?ano Office 365 subscription required, apparently. And a lot more importantly, they'll be for sale inside of the Technical Previews of Windows 10 that Microsoft is publishing "in the coming weeks," the lender said.

Office 2016 may be likely especially for businesses and cost extra, but Microsoft isn't saying precisely how much. The desktop productivity suite will ship from your second a part of this year?ayes, 2015, blood circulation Office 2016 name.

When Microsoft executives demonstrated Windows 10 for phones along the Wednesday event, they stated Word as "universal" Word. Julia White, the total manager of Office, also used that terminology inside a article describing new apps. And indeed, they search much the same given that the superlative Office for iPad Microsoft launched not too long ago.

"They are formulated from the ground up to exercise on Windows 10, built for touch and the unmistakable Office experience you realize and love," White wrote. "As 'universal' Office apps, they truly offer the same app across device size, providing an even strategy for independent software vendors and developers to extend and integrate with Office apps."

Why this matters: It's time for Windows devices to acquire a similar Office love simply because the Android and iOS platforms. An example of my questions at this point, however, is the fact that the new apps are tied (if in any respect) to Office 365. Will O365 strictly be considered an desktop play?
The same thing but different

Your new Windows 10 apps do sound like slightly different than their counterparts on other platforms, however. In their presentation, for illustration, Joe Belfiore showed off that your Office "ribbon" is basically an individual pane in the bottoom of a particular phone.

Here's how Microsoft describes every single new touch-enabled Office for Windows 10 apps. You'll see that in each image, which and images expand or contract to fill available space on a phone or tablet. Microsoft calls this "flow".

Word for Windows 10: "Review and mark-up documents, then share job web-sites to collaborate instantly. The modern Insights for Office feature (powered by Bing) in Read mode brings additional online learning resources like images, web references and definitions on to you from your reading experience."

In lots of ways, the core apps within the tablet look nearly the same as the Office apps along the iPad.

Excel for Windows 10: "Use Excel to prepare and update spreadsheets and gain new insights once you analyze data and visualize it with charts. And new touch-first controls shine in Excel, you won't even miss your keyboard and mouse when selecting ranges of cells, formatting your pie charts or managing your workbooks."

PowerPoint for Windows 10: "Create and edit beautiful presentations with PowerPoint. Then use Presenter View to tidy up and present confidently, even use Ink Tools to annotate your slides live warmth and audience really knows what you have been revealing."

Onenote for Windows 10: "Getting things finished your family members, classmates and colleagues never been easier with shared notebooks-now while using consistent Office ribbon experience."

One note on Onenote: The Metro version of Onenote lacks the "recording" capability, that the desktop version includes. That's a handy route to type notes using a meeting and record it at the same time?aand the audio is keyed to your notes, and the other.

Outlook Mail and Outlook Calendar for Windows 10: "Crafting emails never been so easy and powerful, considering the familiar and rich capability of Microsoft Word that are part of the authoring experience. Simply insert tables, add pictures make use of bullets and color to build your point across. Manage your inbox with new touch gestures that can help you read, sort, flag and archive your mail."

The past bit indicates the swiping gestures that Microsoft showed off inside the Windows Phone presentation.

A few Office 2016 proper, it's like Microsoft is saving those details for another person time. Will any of us all leave Redmond now, Microsoft, or motor scooters other surprises up for grabs?