Microsoft To Create Two Office Reader Apps For Windows 8 Devices

From our sources in the Microsoft, we were able to know that the tech giant is working hard for creating two new Office apps for their Windows 8 operating system and Windows Phone 8. This will make it easy for the users to read Office documents in their device. The app for Windows 8 that is currently code named as Office Reader will help the users for processing different formats of contents by providing cross format platform. While the Office Lens app for the Windows Phone 8 devices helps the user to scan documents such as pictures and then convert them to documents using optical character recognition programs. 

We were also able to know from the Windows 8 support website that the company is trying hard to get some updates for the Microsoft Office suite programs as a part of the Gemini wave of updates to be released in the near future. The information that we are providing here came from a employee-only conference held by Microsoft earlier this month. 

The Office Reader application from Microsoft is a new retro Windows 8 style application that supports web pages, Office documents, eBooks, PDFs and textbooks. This is the main advantage of this program; there is no need to install different programs in the system for opening different format documents in different programs. This helps in making the system run faster and smoother as there will be lot more memory free in the system. 

With the release of this application, Microsoft is trying to conquer the PDF reader industry from the Adobe Corporation. The application is equipped with reflox technology that helps the users to read and browse through the PDF files easily in touch screen environments. The application also allows the users to search for content from the application home screen itself using the Bing search engine. 

The application also boasts stylus support so that you can edit the document by selecting, circling or highlighting and make notes on the document. However, Windows tech support site does not say much about the Office Lens app for Windows Phone devices. Even though we know that the application allows us to convert images into text format, there is really no further information about the other features of the program. 

For knowing more about the new updates from Microsoft, visit the official Microsoft Windows 8 support and news page.