Steve Ballmer just walked off stage in Silicon Valley, Google’s backyard, to announce the Office 2013 preview. I must say, I was very impressed with the consumer focus on productivity as apposed to the usual focus. The demos were awesome and they showed a lot of the stuff that made me amazed in the last year working with the team in Redmond on the betas.

Few quick tips for SharePoint community:

• use the #SharePoint2013 and #officepreview hashtags in your tweets
• if you’re interested in writing about SharePoint2013 and want a large reader audience please contact us at NothingButSharePoint.com to become an author, even if just to cross post.
• remember to sleep and don’t play on SharePoint 2013 Preview all night…

So here are some useful links:

• - my delicious feed for all things SharePoint 2013 that I find. Keep checking back here as I find things!
• - Microsoft Download Center SharePoint 2013 links
• - Official press release of Office 2013 Preview
• - SharePoint 2013 Preview web site
• - Document that press got at event on Office 2013 Preview
• - the new Office 2013 Preview Marketplace
• - the IT Pro IGNITE training material
• - the SharePoint 2013 training videos
• - Build apps for Office and SharePoint landing page
• - Office Next blog

The on-premise downloads are available on MSDN and TechNet now as well so go sign in and grab it!

BTW Office 2013 Preview installs side-by-side with Office 2010 on Windows 8 Release Preview.

Some key legitimate #SharePoint bloggers to follow over the Preview period:

- NothingButSharePoint.com (ALL)

- Andrew Connell (Dev, WCM)

- Stephane Eyskens (Dev)