Not that I'd recommend any normal user to take this route yet, but I've spent the last couple of weeks using the pre-release version of Office 2013 on the consumer preview version of Windows 8 as my primary computing .
While Windows 8 does take some getting used to – incidentally, the RTM version has just been released to devs and journalists this week, and you can read our first impressions of it here – what mostly surprised me about Office 2013 is that it represents a subtle change in the way the suite works. There are plenty of ways to use it differently than the existing versions of Office, and you can buy it in different configurations, but I think most traditional desktop and laptop users of Office will be pleasantly surprised. The change here certainly isn’t of the magnitude we saw with the introduction of the "ribbon" menu in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint in Office 2007, and for Outlook and other components in Office 2010.
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