Microsoft Announces Office 2013 Customer Preview, Windows XP and Vista Not Supported

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Yesterday at the press conference held in San Francisco the Software Giant announced the much awaited Office 2013,next version of company’s popular productivity suite.

The rumors about a supposed beta release of Office 2013 were floating around at the start of the month,but now as confirmed yesterday by Microsoft,the Customer Preview version of Office 2013 is now available for download over web.The suite contains all the good old popular tools like Word,PowerPoint,One Note,OutLook and Excel with a touch of Metro interface,with intuitive design which works well with touch, stylus, mouse or keyboard inputs across Windows-based devices, including tablets.along with the other features like Cloud support and social service support like Yammer and Skype.

This version of Office will support Windows 7 as well as the upcoming Windows 8 operating system,however Microsoft has decided to close the doors for the older operating systems,so all those who own a Windows XP or Vista operating system wont be able to use this version of office suite.To use it with the Windows 8 version,you would have to at least update to Windows 8 Release Preview till the final release goes public in October.

This is quite a clever move by Microsoft,to lure the consumers to upgrade to the latest and greatest operating system.With the newly announced upgrade plans for the users it won’t  burn their pockets to shed  39.99$ for a Windows 8 Pro upgrade which is the cheapest of all the version.This version will support both the Wind0ws 8 version as well as the newly launched Windows RT version of devices including Microsoft Surface Tablet.

You can download the Office 2013  Customer Preview Now

 

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002327068374 Ashutosh Cool

    The thing that I was waiting for….Microsoft Rockkssss…..

  • SvalinnAsgard

    Microsoft really wants the world to be enslaved to metro, do they not?

    • Joe

      *and Windows 7. Nothing said about making people use Windows 8. They just want people to stop using 2 outdated OS’

      • SvalinnAsgard

        Windows 8 (not metro), 7, Vista, and XP are just Windows 2000 with terrible unorganized interfaces, way more unnecessary bloat, and tons of extra hand-holding garbage. It is only “outdated” because Microsoft says so, and they say that because they need income from new purchases. In reality, the core of the operating system is nearly identical.

        The only one exception to this is 64-bit support, which I thank Microsoft for embracing in its later operating systems. There actually was a very primitive 64-bit Windows 2000, but it is impossible to find now days. A 64-bit Windows 2000 with modern hardware support would function infinitely faster and more stable than any of these “updated” versions.

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