Microsoft unveils Office 2013

Microsoft Corp unveiled a new version of its Office suite tailored for tablets and other touch screen devices.

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer presents Office 13

Q. Who is the Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft Corp.?
A. Steve Ballmer. And Bill Gates is the chairman.


Q. What are the new main features of Office 2013?
A. It is a based on cloud-computing (that is, all your documents and settings are stored on the Web, by default). It is touch-friendly and designed for tablets and computers with Windows 8 as their operating system. It also incorporates Skype, the video-calling service that Microsoft bought for $8.5 billion in 2011.


Q. What is meant by Cloud Computing?
A. Cloud computing refers to a growing trend toward providing software, storage and other services from remote data centers over the Web instead of relying on software or data installed on individual PCs.


Q. What is the name of the cloud-computing service of Microsoft?
A. SkyDrive

Sunita Williams and two astronauts dock Russian spacecraft at ISS

 Record-setting Indian-American cosmonaut Sunita Williams along with two other astronauts today docked their Russian Soyuz spacecraft at the International Space Station for a four-month stay.

Q. Who are the other two?

A. Russian Soyuz Commander Yuri Malenchenko and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency flight engineer  Akihiko Hoshide.

Q. What is the record set by Sunita Williams?

A. She holds the record of the longest spaceflight-195 days-for women space travelers. 

Q. Where did the spaceflight take of?

A. From baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan

Q. What is going to be her position in the crew?

A.  In the space, she will become commander of Expedition 33


Q. When was she selected by NASA?
A. In 1998. Second woman of Indian origin to have been selected by NASA for a space mission after Kalpana Chawla.