Microsoft Brings Touch Office Apps to Windows 10 Technical Preview

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Get touchy-feely with Office today

Are you rocking a copy of the Windows 10 Technical Preview? If so, you can kick the tires on three of Microsoft's Universal Office apps -- Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. All three are immediately available to download in the new Windows Store beta, which you can gain access to if you've joined the Microsoft Windows Insider program (and if not, go here to become one), just as Microsoft promised they would be.
In the coming weeks, the same apps will also be made available on phones and tablets running Windows 10, and sometime thereafter you'll gain access to Outlook and OneNote as well. In the meantime, you can start playing around with Word, Excel, and PowerPoint right now, all of which have been optimized for touch and mobile.
The Universal Office apps look a little different than their desktop counterparts. They also sport some new features that make them easier to use on touchscreen devices, like a new Read mode in Word for scrolling through long documents. And in Excel, you can use touch to select multiple cells, format pie charts, and more.
There's no charge to download and use the apps currently, which Microsoft plans to keep updated. If interested, here are the download links:
Excel Preview
Word Preview
PowerPoint Preview
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