Bangalore: Microsoft announced that they will launch their new office, called Office 29, on January 29, reported zdnet.com

There were a lot of rumors that Microsoft will announce something big on Office 2013 on January 29. Thanks to the officially announcement from the office team via Twitter, it’s clear the Microsoft is launching the new office in New York.

Office 2013 is said to have a new look with “Modern-style” aesthetic of Windows 8. The suite comes with a “Touch Mode” interface which makes it better to use on Windows 8 tablets. 

According to Microsoft, the Office 2013 will cost $140 for the Home & Student Edition with Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote. A Home & Business edition, which includes Outlook, costs $220, and a Professional edition with Publisher and Access costs around $400.

The new Office 2013 include comes with a number of new additions such as “Read Mode” in Word for viewing documents without distractions, built-in PDF editing, additional analysis tools in Excel and tighter integration with Web services such as SkyDrive and Facebook.

Microsoft is on its way to sound pretty big this year, as the company had been trying to integrate its online tools with the Office software using a subscription service. The Office 365, a cloud and desktop suite, offers a Home Premium subscription costs $100 per year and includes 20 GB of SkyDrive storage and 60 minutes per month of Skype calls.