Medal Tracker is a new template in Excel that uses three apps for Office to quickly find and visualize information on Olympic medals. To try it for yourself, download Office 2013 Preview , open Excel, and choose Medal Tracker from the list of templates on the start screen. You can also watch the short...

We started this blog with a couple of posts that introduced the new Office cloud app model and the principles behind it: web standards, simplicity, security and performance, consistency, and flexibility to developers. Brian Jones already talked about our background , and as Howard Crow comments in his...