Microsoft Office 2013

Microsoft Office 2013 (formerly Office 15) is a version of Microsoft Office, a productivity suite for Microsoft Windows. It is the successor of Microsoft Office 2010 and includes extended file format support, user interface updates and support for touch among its new features. Office 2013 is suitable for IA-32 and x64 systems and requires Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2 or later version of either. A version of Office 2013 comes included on Windows RT devices.
Development on this version of Microsoft Office was started in 2010 and ended on October 11, 2012 when Microsoft Office 2013 was released to manufacturing. Microsoft released Office 2013 to general availability on 29 January 2013. This version includes new features such as integration support for online services (including SkyDrive, Outlook.com, Hotmail, Skype, Yammer and Flickr), improved format support for Office Open XML (OOXML), OpenDocument (ODF) and Portable Document Format (PDF) and support for multi-touch interfaces.
Microsoft Office 2013 comes in twelve different editions, including three editions for retail outlets, two editions for volume licensing channel, five subscription-based editions available through Microsoft Office 365 program, the web application edition known as Office Web Apps and the Office RT edition made for tablets and mobile devices. Office Web Apps are available free of charge on the web although enterprises may obtain for on-premises installation for a price. Microsoft Office applications may be obtained individually; this includes Microsoft Visio, Microsoft Project and Microsoft SharePoint Designer which are not included in any of the twelve editions.

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Traditional editions

As with previous versions, Office 2013 is made available in several distinct editions aimed towards different markets. All traditional editions of Microsoft Office 2013 contain Word, Excel, PowerPoint and One Note and are licensed for use on one computer.

Five traditional editions of Office 2013 were released:

• Home & Student: This suite includes the core applications Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote. It is available at retail outlets and may not be used for commercial purposes.
• Home & Business: This retail suite adds Outlook to the core lineup.
• Standard: This suite adds Outlook and Publisher to the core lineup and is only available through volume licensing channels.
• Professional: A retail suite, it includes Outlook, Publisher and Access as well as the core apps.
• Professional Plus: Available through volume licensing only, this suite includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Outlook, Publisher, Access, InfoPath and Lync.

Office apps for Windows 8 and RT

Alongside Office RT, free versions of OneNote and the Lync client were made available as Windows Store apps upon the release of Windows 8 and RT. The OneNote app contains a limited feature set in comparison to its desktop version, but is also optimized for use on tablets. and a Microsoft Lync client.

Office on Windows Phone 8

Windows Phone 8 ships with an updated version of the Office Mobile suite, consisting of mobile versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote. In comparison to their Windows Phone 7 versions, the new versions add an improved Office Hub interface that can sync recently opened and modified documents (including changes to documents stored via Office 365 and SkyDrive), a separated OneNote app with additional features (such as voice notes and integration with the new "Rooms" functionality of the OS), and improved document editing and viewing functionality.

System requirements

Each Microsoft Office 2013 application has the following requirements, although there may be app-specific requirements.

Item	Requirement
CPU	1 GHz clock speed, IA-32 or x64 architecture with SSE2 support
RAM	IA-32 edition: 1 GB (IA-32) x64 edition: 2 GB RAM
Hard disk drive	3.0 GB free disk space
Operating system	Windows 7 Windows Server 2008 R2 Windows 8 Windows Server 2012
Software	.NET Framework 3.5, 4.0 or 4.5

In addition to these, graphics hardware acceleration requires a screen resolution of 1024×576 pixels or larger and a DirectX 10-compliant GPU with at least 64 MB of video memory.

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