MS Office 2013

Microsoft Office 2013 leaves Windows XP & Vista in the dust ...
Major change with Office 2013 available on only on Windows 7 and 8! This could be the start of mass consumer migration to Google Docs! It will be very interesting to see the price that Microsoft puts on Office 2013.



Microsoft is finally leaving Windows XP and Windows Vista in the dust, as the just-announced Microsoft Office 2013 will only support the Windows 7 and Windows 8 operating systems.
Microsoft's Steve Ballmer and Kirk Koenigsbauer took center stage at a press conference in San Francisco today to introduce the 15th version of Microsoft Office. The Consumer Preview is available today, but not for XP or Vista users, who'll have to upgrade their OS to use Microsoft Office 2013.

Out with the old

Microsoft Office 2010 provided support for both Windows XP and Windows Vista. But Office 2013 will drop the old operating systems in favor of a sleek new touch UI, cloud and social functionality that is available through the Office 365 subscription. CEO Ballmer said during today's presentation that Microsoft Office is "the flagship application from Microsoft" and "the most important application" the company sells. That makes it an even more devastating loss for devotees of older OS versions. Corporate VP of Office Koenigsbauer further stressed the importance of cloud functionality, a function that would have likely taken extra effort to implement in older systems. Ballmer emphasized that Microsoft Office 365 "is a service first," and an application suite second. The new Office is expected to release in 2013, although the Consumer Preview is available now.