SAN FRANCISCO — Microsoft today showed off at its Build developer conference a preview for a new application programming interface (API) developers can use to get data out of multiple Microsoft Office apps.
Rob Lefferts, general manager of Office extensibility at Microsoft, ran through a demo of the new service alongside Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella.
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Nadella was visibly excited by it all at the demo.
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“That’s the powerful concept — you no longer are going to different applications for different data,” Nadella said.
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