Once more, Microsoft brings its ??A-game' to the smartphone table, and once more the beneficiary is not ms office 2013 but Apple's iOS.

Following a arguably groundbreaking discharge of Office for iOS and Android, together with clients for Skype and OneDrive, and the frankly unmissable reworking of Accompli into Outlook, Microsoft has debuted another application for Cupertino's mobile platform.

Microsoft Selfie may not be earth-shattering in its goal, but what it does is worth noting, because it illustrates a small sector of office 2013 home and business mobile plans going forward into 2016. The app takes a picture with your iPhone's forward-facing camera (or uses an existing picture), enables you to apply certainly one of a quantity of filters, vary the effectiveness of said filter, and save the resulting picture. Sharing to social networks, messaging or any other destinations has become your decision using your favourite client app.

The software echoes the Lumia Selfie application, originally designed for the Nokia Lumia Windows Phone devices, with the new app sharing the iconography from the Finnish original. The process has also smoothed out, with less reliance upon menus for options instead relying on sliders and push buttons.

It also applies its very own image processing to remove noise in the picture, improve skin tone, tweak the white balance, and generally make the base picture more acceptable before you hit the filters. No doubt the data gained during the ??Guess How old you are According to cheap Windows 10 Pro Picture' project from early 2015 may have been accustomed to discover what creates a better picture (hat tip to Nick Starr for your possible connection).