Microsoft Office 2013 (formerly Office 15) is the upcoming version of the Microsoft Office productivity suite for Microsoft Windows, and the successor to Microsoft Office 2010. Office 2013 includes extended file format
support, user interface updates, and support for touch. Office 2013 is
suitable for IA-32 and x64 systems and requires Windows 7 or Windows
Server 2008 R2 or later. It cannot be installed on Windows XP, Windows
Vista, Windows Server 2008 or other earlier versions of the operating
system. However, a Windows RT version of Office 2013 is available as
well.
On July 16, 2012, the Consumer Preview of Office 2013 was released to
the general public. The RTM version of Office 2013 was released on
October 11 and became available to TechNet and MSDN subscribers on
October 24. On November 15, 2012, the trial version of the retail Office
2013 Professional Plus, Project Professional 2013 and Visio
Professional 2013 were made available to the public at TechNet and MSDN.
History and development
Development started in 2010 while Microsoft was finishing work on Office 14, released as Microsoft Office 2010.
In May 2011, a build of an Office 2013 alpha build was leaked by a tester.
On January 30, 2012, Microsoft released a technical preview of Office
15, build 3612.1010, to a selected group of testers bound by
non-disclosure agreements.
On July 16, 2012, Microsoft held a press conference to show off Office 2013 and to release
the Consumer Preview. It is available to the general public at the
Microsoft Office Preview website. The Office 2013 Consumer Preview is a
free, fully functional version but will expire.
An updates was issued for the Office 2013 Customer Preview suite on October 5.
Office 2013 reached RTM milestone on October 11, 2012. Microsoft has
planned general availability release for the first quarter of 2013.
New features
Office 2013 is more "cloud-based" than previous versions. This is
notable as the default save location is the user's SkyDrive. Also,
Microsoft is hoping that users will get Office 2013 through Office 365.
Microsoft Office 2013 includes updated support for ISO/IEC 29500, the
International Standard version of Office Open XML (OOXML) file format as
well as OASIS Open Document Format 1.2 which Office 2013 can read and
write. Additionally, Office 2013 provides full read, write, and edit
support for ISO32000 (PDF).
Microsoft also supports Office Open XML Strict, a format which
Microsoft has submitted to the ISO for interoperability with other
office suites, and to aid adoption in the public sector.
New features also include new Read mode in Word, a Presentation mode in
PowerPoint and improved touch and inking in all of the Office
programs. Microsoft Word can also insert video and audio from online
sources as well as the capability to broadcast documents on the Web.
Word and PowerPoint also have bookmark-like features which sync the
position of the document between different computers.
Features of Office 2013 include:
- Touch Mode along with touch enhancements.
- Flatter look of the Ribbon interface and subtle animations when typing or selecting (Word and Excel)
- Microsoft Outlook now has a new visualization for scheduled tasks
- New Start Experience
- New graphical options in Microsoft Word
- New alignment lines when moving objects
- Online picture support with content from Office.com, Bing.com and Flickr
- Resume Reading in Word and PowerPoint
- New slide designs, animations and transitions in PowerPoint 2013
- Support for Outlook.com and Hotmail.com in Outlook
- Support for Skype and Yammer
- Excel 2013 supports new model limits.
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