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Microsoft Office 2013 Not Compatible With Windows XP, Vista
hypnosec writes "The newly unveiled productivity suite from Microsoft, Office 2013, won't be running on older operating systems like Windows XP and Vista it has been revealed. Office 2013 is said to be only compatible with PCs, laptops or tablets that are running on the latest version of Windows i.e. either Windows 7 or not yet released Windows 8. According to a systems requirements page for Microsoft for Office 2013 customer preview, the Office 2010 successor is only compatible with Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Server 2008 R2 or Windows Server 2012. This was confirmed by a Microsoft spokesperson. Further the minimum requirements states that systems need to be equipped with at least a 1 GHz processor and should have 1 GB of RAM for 32-bit systems or 2 GB for 64-bit hardware. The minimum storage space that should be available is 3 GB along with a DirectX 10-compatible graphics card for users wanting hardware acceleration."
I'd suggest that people run a more modern operating system than Win XP, but LibreOffice will even run on Windows 2000!
LibreOffice system requirements:
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LaTex or something that allows you to separate the content from the presentation. It's something that tends to make things a lot easier if you decide later that you want different formatting or if you need a copy for two different audiences, but where the audiences can't for one reason or another use the same formatting. Like say if you're sending one copy to somebody that always uses a mobile phone.
It's not that bad. Word 2010 uses ~95 MB of memory for an 11,461 page document. I sincerely doubt Word 2013 is much worse.
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The question though in this case isn't "what does it take to run office" so much as "what does it take to run any application in Windows 7 or Windows 8?"
Those system specs are nearly identical to Windows 7's system recommendations.
Essentially all the recommended system specs are saying is. "Your computer needs to run Windows 7, after that Office will be fine with whatever." If your OS is crapping out without any apps running (min OS specs) then you won't be running office smoothly either.
LaTeX is one of those things that has clung to life long past its expiry date.
No.
We still see it in academia a lot,
Almost everyone in academia has a mcahine capable or running Office. The rest have machines capable of running openoffice. Many universities are site-licensed with Office. Yet LaTeX persists because people in academia find that it fits their needs better.
and at this point the advice I give people is write your document in some sort of 'office' suite with a half assed effort at formatting, and then put it into LaTeX at the end (or paragraph by paragraph if you need things like equations for the content to make sense).
Then you're a total lunatic.
The office suites are poor editors, and they don't support version control in any meaningful manner. Yes, I have struggled through change tracking and document merging. Compared to writing a document with several co-authors at different locations and using something sane, like git, the tools you advocate are essentially non-functional.
It's much easier to check spelling/grammar,
Now I know you're making shit up. Even vim has spell checking built in these days. And I've never met a grammar checker which didn't suck.
have revisions made by other people (with comments and suggested corrections and so on), in one of the office suits than it is with LaTeX.
LaTeX doesn't do revisions. Those are much better served by a revision control system. I've used CVS, git, SVN, Darcs, Mercurial and possibly others. I've also worked with the versioning features of a word processor. Once you have more than 2 authors and/or the authors are working at the same time, you need a proper VCS. The half-asses word processor ones suck.
Anfd you know you can write comments in LaTeX, right?
office suites are so much better.
You have actually failed to give any coherent argument as to how.
And good luck getting something like ArXiv to work with a word processor.
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Word processor pages are rendered similar to a web browser. We now use graphics card acceleration for browsers. Why not for publishing software?