Like Steve Ballmer suggested, Windows RT tablets, like the Microsoft Surface, will be more useful than many competitor devices. A large part of this usefulness is down to the Office 2013 RT software.

Windows RT has taken a lot of heat from critics. Some have called the five-month-old operating system a flop. Others have suggested RT was a mistake. So Microsoft's Michael Angiulo has begun to ...

In a post on the official Word blog, Microsoft says that when a user of a Windows RT device stops using Word 2013 for a certain time period, it goes into a mode known as "deep idle", which puts ...

me that Surface RT owners can play Words With Friends through Facebook via a Web browser. As an aside, if you’re in the market for a Windows tablet, Microsoft recently cut ...

At Computex 2013, Tami Reller, CFO and CMO of Microsoft’s Windows Division, announced that Outlook 2013 RT will be available on Windows RT devices, as part of the Windows 8.1 update later this year.

Macros, third-party add-ins, and VBA support will all be dropped from the Office 2013 RT edition, and one source says a "small number" of other features have also been removed.