<p>In the 22 years since it was launched, Microsoft Office, much like its parent company, has become synonymous with computing. But over the past few years, a number of free competitors, from OpenOffice to Google Docs, have challenged its hegemony, not only in terms of price, but social features as well. Office 365, Microsoft's answer to these competitors, not only has a number of new sharing features, but is offered as a yearly $99 subscription as well. Are these new changes enough to keep Office as the go-to productivity suite?Interface</p><p>In general, Office has a cleaner, more spartan look than before. Instead of gray or blue menu bars, everything is white with gray text. We wish it were black, because we associate the gray color with an application that's running in the background. We had to click on the menu bar just to make sure we were in the active window.</p><p>When you first open an app, you're presented with a page showing a number of templates ranging from a blog post to a calendar in Word, to family budgets and currency converters in Excel. Considering all the different ways these apps are used, these templates are helpful starting points for the uninitiated. Of course, you can also open a blank document.</p><p>Click to EnlargeIn all of the apps, you can enter a full-screen view by pressing the icon just to the right of the "?" When hidden, three dots appear at the upper right which, when pressed, reveal the toolbar temporarily until you start typing in the body of whatever document you're working on.</p><p><a href="http://www.laptopmag.com/review/software/microsoft-office-365.aspx">Keep reading...</a></p>