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How good is Office 2013’s Touch support?

2013-3-7

Today I got into a debate with Peter Bright of Ars Technica on Twitter. Got a little bugged with his hyperbolic claims that Office 2013 only increases spacing on the ribbon in the name of enabling touch. Having used Word RT for significant amount of time in the past few months I found his claims childish. He retorted back with an F bomb asking how about a UI that doesn't need a mouse. I replied saying I don't need mouse for most of what I do. He came back with a bunch of challenges and this post is an attempt to publicly respond to them.

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