10 Facts About Office 2013

Microsoft Office 2013 is a version of Microsoft Office, a productivity suite for Microsoft Windows.

Microsoft Office 2013 includes extended file format support, user interface updates and support for touch among its new features and is suitable for IA-32 and x64 systems.

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.

The Office 2013 Consumer Preview is a free, fully functional version but will expire 60 days after the final product's release.

Additionally, Office 2013 provides full read, write, and edit support for ISO 32000 .

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Original license agreement for retail editions of Microsoft Office 2013 was different from the license agreements of retail editions of previous versions of Microsoft Office in two significant ways.

Digitally downloaded copies of Office 2013 were said to be permanently locked to that PC's hardware, preventing it from being transferred to any other computing device.

All traditional editions of Microsoft Office 2013 contain Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote and are licensed for use on one computer.

The edition, whilst visually indistinguishable from normal versions of Office 2013, contains special optimizations for ARM-based devices, such as changes to reduce battery usage, enabling touch mode by default to improve usability on tablets, and using the graphics portion of a device's SoC for hardware acceleration.

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