Microsoft Office 2013

Microsoft Oficce 2013 is the packet of office applications developed by Microsoft company.

2012: Official declaration of an exit

On July 16, 2012 the head of Microsoft Steve Ballmer officially submitted the new version of Microsoft Office. He called it "Office as service" and characterized as "the most ambitious release of Office from all that was done ever by the company".

As well as it was expected, the new version of the office suite carries the name Office 2013 though during a number of conferences Ballmer and colleagues called it "new Office" or "new Office 365". Besides, the corporation provided previously and a number of new versions of Office 365: Office 365 Home Premium, Office 365 ProPlus, Office 365 Small Business Premium and Office 365 Enterprise. All these versions include Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Outlook, Publisher and Access.

Home Premium can install on five devices at the same time, including the PC and tablets under management both Windows 7, and Windows 8. Though the latest version of the operating system did not leave yet, users can set the preliminary release published on May 31, 2012.

Apparently, owners Windows Vista Windows XP were also lucky less. The sentence of the last did not become surprise as OS with a 11-year experience should "retire" finally in April, 2014.

New Office will be available as the traditional set of applications and as service on a subscription under the name Office 365 Home Premium, said in the official statement of corporation. The prices of new Office are not called yet, they will become known "closer to fall" when the final release of the new office suite should take place. According to analysts if Microsoft adheres to the schedule which developed earlier, then the new office suite will begin to be on sale at the end of January – the beginning of February, 2013.

When Office 365 Home Premium becomes available finally, it will join also 20 GB of space for data storage of SkyDrive and 60 minutes of Skype monthly.

Transition to Office 2013 will be free?

Microsoft will provide details concerning transition the new version of a packet of Office within 5 weeks, reported the ZDNet edition in the middle of September, 2012. Within the program the new version of Office 2013, perhaps, will be provided free of charge or with big discount for those who are already a user of Office 2010, writes the edition.

Periodically Microsoft practices similar and in respect of users of the Windows operating system. So, for example, in 2010 owners of Office 2007 obtained a guarantee of free updating to Office 2010 within several months before start of a new product. The action started on March 5, 2010, for 14 weeks before receipt of Office 2010 in retail sale which took place on June 15 the same year, and the program worked up to September 30, 2010.

Similar to users who purchased computers from the installed Windows 7 during the period from June 2, 2012 to January 31, 2013 will be able to receive the copy of Windows 8 Pro for $14.99, since October 26, 2012.

According to ZDNet with reference to screenshots of pages of the official site of Microsoft which were hasty deleted afterwards the program of updating to the version of Office 2013 starts on October 19, 2012. If the logic of Microsoft remains the same, then it can mean that a commercial exit of Office 2013 is planned for January, 2013.

At the moment users can test Office 365 Home Premium Customer Preview representing the beta of new Office 2013, having started the program from the official website of corporation.

Microsoft Office в Windows 8

Microsoft announced that in Windows 8 there will be no preset packet of Office Starter 2010, most likely, it is connected with fast release of the new version of Office 2013 which should happen at the end of 2012 or the beginning of 2013. According to the official statement of Microsoft, "the bad compatibility with Windows 8" is the reason of such solution.

The packet of Office Starter 2010 was created by Microsoft in 2009 as replacement to older packet of Microsoft Works which was provided to OEM partner (original equipment manufacturers) in order that they preset it in ready PCs.

The packet of Starter included two programs - Word 2010 and Excel 2010. As the free offer for OEM, the packet gave the chance to new PC users to test possibilities of programs. It was supposed that further these users will purchase one of paid office suites - Office Home and Student 2010 or Office Home and Business 2010 (in Russia the price of the first packet – to 3 thousand rubles, on the second – up to 7 thousand rubles).

Distinctive feature of Office Starter 2010 also was existence of advertizing, it was the first application of corporation with such function. Possibilities of Word and Excel in this packet were limited.

At the moment Microsoft offers the 60-day free test version of Office, it can be downloaded from the official site of corporation. As for OEM, it is recommended to them to install on computers based on Windows 7 other means now - Office 2010 Transition OEM Preinstallation Kit or OPK. "Office Starter 2010 does not enter Office 2010 Transition OPK", said in documents on the official website of corporation. In the same document it is said that OPK will be the mandatory requirement for assembly of all computers on the Windows platform 8.

As Office 2013 will leave after "eight", OEM producers will be forced to install several months on Office 2010 computers. However, users 8 are warned that in that case they will have "bad user experience". Updating via Windows Update will be offered to PC users on Windows 7.

A number of sources reports that the free cloud packet of Microsoft Office Web Apps which includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote will become replacement of Office Starter 2010.

2013: Start of sales of Office 2013. Prices

On January 29, 2013 there was the next version of Microsoft Office 2013. Distinctive feature of the new version is what to home users became now also well to acquisition of Microsoft Office 365 on a subscription: earlier this option was provided only for business. On this historical solution Oliver Roll, the chief manager on communication of the Microsoft Office division, commented as follows: "We consider that in a cloud - the future".

The version for users is called Office 365 Home Premium (in the Russian version - Office 365 for the house expanded). It can be set on up to 5 selected PCs or Mac and also other devices, i.e. home users will be able to use this license collectively everyone from the account. The version includes use of Word 2013, Excel 2013, Power Point 2013 and also some other applications together with 20 GB for storage in service SkyDrive. The cost of an annual subscription is 2.5 thousand a year or 250 rubles a month. At the moment Office Home Premium is available in total in 162 markets in 21 languages.

Are also updated ^[1] and on the version of Office 2013 for private and business of users, provided on traditional model - in property. The cost of licenses is given below.

The cost of the licenses Office 2013 for home use

Among features of Office 2013 there is an interface in "new Windows style" (Metro), integration with faylokhranilishchy SkyDrive, an opportunity to edit the PDF files in Word, "The touch mode" (Touch Mode) for owners of devices with touch screens and so on.

Office 2013 can install on computers based on Windows 7 and Windows 8. The XP and Vista operating systems are not supported.

Microsoft localized Office for corporate clients in Russia

Microsoft since December 1, 2012 will offer corporate clients the version of Microsoft Office 2013 localized for the Russian market. About it journalists were told by the head of the Russian department on promotion of information office systems of Microsoft Pavel Kuzmenko on November 27, 2012 at the technology Microsoft TechEd 2012 exhibition.

"Now we offer the following localized applications: Microsoft Office 2013 Microsoft Office 2013 Pro Microsoft Share Point Microsoft Exchange 2013, Microsoft Lync", - Kuzmenko told.

Other applications entering office program will be available in the first quarter 2013.

"I want to note that the cost of new office did not change. Also all clients buying the new version of Windows 8 will receive Microsoft Office 2013", - he concluded.

About what number of clients is ready to be upgraded to the new version of office programs of Kuzmenko did not answer. Also he found it difficult to tell what should will serve as an incentive for the companies on transition to new applications.

At the same time, Kuzmenko explained TAdviser that Microsoft first of all calculates that clients who have old versions of office products, such as Microsoft Office 2003, Microsoft Office 2007 will use a new product.

"We hope that they will understand that the success of the company including depends also on at what software employees work. We want to offer the best", - he concluded.

2014: Microsoft Office 2013 Sevice Pack 1

On February 25, 2013 Microsoft announced release of the first service packet (SP1) for Office 2013, SharePoint 2013 and Exchange Server 2013, the leveling number of mismatches between a packet of office products for business, new assemblies Windows and devices.

In a packet of corrections and improvements of Office, SharePoint and Exchange Server provides the improved support of Windows 8.1, means of BI and the improved protection of e-mail. The compatibility of Internet Explorer 11, support of displays with high resolution and big density of pixels, transition from SkyDrive Pro to OneDrive for Business is improved.

According to the description of Microsoft, the packet of corrections included all corrections and patches which are released from December, 2013 till the end of January, 2014, an amendment in work of basic elements of Microsoft Office increasing stability of work of software, performance and security.

SP1 includes Power Map for Excel (in last GeoFlow), the 3D tool - visualization, Microsoft PowerBI which is a part of a packet for Office 365. PowerBI uses a cloud platform of Windows Azure now and has management tools, friendly to the user, filters, a search capability in a natural language by means of what users of Office 365 can analyze data on interactive maps in Excel.

As a part of SP1 thin settings for stream technology of virtualization of desktop applications of Click-to-Run Office 365. In addition, Microsoft continues to draw attention of developers with the new programming interfaces Apps for Office API.

Servispak for Exchange Server 2013 gave a signal to "return of technology of enciphering of S/MIME for users of Outlook Web App" - it contains new features of prevention of date leak (DLP) which will help the companies to strengthen control of the classified information. One of functions - DLP Document Fingerprinting by means of which the detection of content helping administrators to create the security policies and observance of standards is possible: it is possible to create the digital fingerprint of the document on the basis of a form of the patent request of the organization to distinguish when users send this form, and then to use functionality of DLP for control of content distribution.

Are added to Exchange 2013: functionality of journalizing of Exchange Admin Center on the basis of cmdlets (similar to use of cmdlets of PowerShell for journalizing in Exchange 2010 Management Console), support of MAPI over HTTP (MAPI/HTTP), unloading of processing of SSL and compatibility with Windows Server 2012 R2.

On the website of Microsoft boot packets of SP1 for desktop versions of Office 2013, the SharePoint 2013 and Exchange Server server are offered. After a month SP1 will be a part of automatic updates of Microsoft Update service.