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I've been using Office 2013 and to be honest I hate it, the UI looks washed out and horrid. There are a couple of nice improvements in opening and saving files but nothing that will warrant the extra money Microsoft will try and squeeze out of you.

What's your opinion on Windows 8 on a tablet?
Microsoft apparently made this product look washed out and limited so that their web based equivalents would be more, well.., Equivalent. Office has become such a mature, great looking and feature-rich product it is disappointing that Microsoft would diminish its quality and depth (while simultaneously raising prices) in an attempt to strong-arm a loyal customer base into the freaking "cloud".
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If you don't like it, don't buy it, this strategy has worked before with Microsoft, Just look at Windows Vista.
has been there since it was introduced in the 2007 version.
As far as I'm concerned, they can take the ribbon and shove it where the sun don't shine! For my money the last GOOD version of office was Office 2003!
If there is no classic office button and I have to eat and crap those ribbons for dummies then no I will stick with office 2003 as millions of other are.
It comes with a mail application built in, there will be a lot of free alternatives I have no doubt and most people have a web-interface to their email accounts as well.
in the 1980s and 1990s about why you would want an email client as part of your office package.

For handling mail, I use Thunderbird.
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