Microsoft issued previews of the touch-centric Excel, PowerPoint and Word more than five months ago.īut in Microsoft's new world order, nothing is ever really finished. The simultaneous debuts are still the plan, another Microsoft spokesperson said in an email. Windows 10 is slated to launch on July 29, with Insider testers getting first dibs and others having to wait until Microsoft authorizes their Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 PCs to start an upgrade. Previously, Microsoft had said that it would ship Office for Windows 10 alongside the operating system itself. Aul said that the new names were to distinguish them from the same-named applications in the desktop suites for Windows and OS X.

Instead, the new moniker of 'Mobile' has been added to the apps' names, as in Word Mobile, Excel Mobile and PowerPoint Mobile. The latest versions, however, were not tagged with a preview label once they had been downloaded to a Windows 10 device running build 10166. Apparently, that's not the case.Īs Aul noted, Microsoft continued to mark the apps as 'Preview' in the Windows 10 Store, Microsoft's official distribution mart for both classic and new-form Windows applications and apps. Earlier today, several blogs and media outlets had called Office for Windows 10 done.