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Microsoft Office 2013 Not Compatible With Windows XP, Vista

Posted by samzenpus on from the does-not-work-well-with-others dept.

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."

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  1. LibreOffice will work on older Windows installs by Qubit · · Score: 5, Informative

    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:

    - Microsoft Windows 2000 (Service Pack 4 or higher), XP, Vista, Windows 7, or Windows 8;
    - Pentium-compatible PC (Pentium III, Athlon or more-recent system recommended);
    - 256 Mb RAM (512 Mb RAM recommended);

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  2. Re:Lol by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.

  3. Re:Lol by im_thatoneguy · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.