The new Microsoft Office was unveiled earlier today by Steve Ballmer at a media event in San Francisco. Following the trend set with Windows 8 and Windows Phone, Microsoft is reinventing Office to adapt to the times and remain competitive in an increasingly tough market. Let’s take a closer look at how that’s working out with the new Word 2013.

New Greeting

Normally when I fire up Word, it just opens a blank document, but Word 2013 it takes you to a landing page. The page is similar to what you’d see in Word 2010 if you start a new document from a template: In a pane on the right, it hosts various thumbnail images illustrating the different templates; and in a smaller pane on the left, it lets you select from recent Word documents or open other existing files.