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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."
Good. XP needs to be wiped out.
Yeah, I just had to make sure here on that one. Open office... 27.3MB of ram in use with my largest technical letter open, which is 173 pages long. Okay there MS, you guys are insane.
Om, nomnomnom...
Yeah, my wife has been using OpenOffice every day, now, for about six years, and she's convinced anyone who pays money for office software is crazy. She's a grant writer for non-profit organizations, so she has to exchange documents with people all the time, and she has no issues at all. OpenOffice does everything she needs.
The thing that really amazes her is that OpenOffice is actually better at reading old Microsoft Office formats than more recent versions of Microsoft Office.
Sit, Ubuntu, sit. Good dog.
Nobody complains that the new Chevy Volt isn't compatible with their set of tools they bought just last year to work on cars.
Nobody complains that the HE dishwasher they bought wont except regular dishwashing crystals.
Nobody complains that the new bike they bought can't use all the old tires they have from the last bike.
Nobody complains that the HD TV they bought doesn't have RCA cable inputs.
Why is that? Face it people, progress happens and sometimes you've got to let go of the old and invest in the new.
Luckily there is eBay and Craigslist where you can sell your old stuff to someone who can't afford the new shiny yet. Give them a break and sell it to them.
A fool throws a stone into a well and a thousand sages can not remove it.
Makes you wonder if there isn't a strategy in there somewhere.
Windows 7: Corporate
Windows 8: Beta testing new stuff on Home users
Windows 9: Corporate
A fool throws a stone into a well and a thousand sages can not remove it.
A graphics processor helps increase the performance of certain features, such as drawing tables in Excel 2013 Preview or transitions, animations, and video integration in PowerPoint 2013 Preview. Use of a graphics processor with Office 2013 Preview requires a Microsoft DirectX 10-compliant graphics processor that has 64 MB of video memory. These processors were widely available in 2007. Most computers that are available today include a graphics processor that meets or exceeds this standard. However, if you or your users do not have a graphics processor, you can still run Office 2013 Preview.
Also it would seem the requirements are rounded to the nearest 0.5gb and probably are for extremely heavy usage cases.
I'm sorry, I can only see half of your reply. I can't see the bit where you suggest an alternative?
They have no business reason to support people who do not purchase the new operating system.
Actually, they do. Microsoft might wish to avoid being prosecuted for a Clayton Act Violation. (Tying.)
When all you have is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a thumb.
Many,
Pivot Tables to name one. One click charting. HUGE spreadsheets.
I am not even an MS apologist, but even I can see that.
Slashdot, where armchair scientists get shouted down and armchair theologians get modded up.
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.
All modern WYSIWYG text processors have styles, which let you do the same.
Honestly, although I have access to newer versions of Office, I don't see the point. Not a single thing I want from a newer version of Office, and the bloating hardware requirements makes it that much easier to just say NO...
most folks still sending out .DOC files as well, only those with no clue are saving Word files as .DOCX.
If its like the one I saw they are using some lame ass CPUs in them which means they need extra room to get the heat out through pipes and fans. why hasn't anybody put one of the AMD C or E series chips into a tablet? Those are nice chips, full 1080P video through HDMI thanks to the Radeon GPU and pretty low on battery suckage. I have one of the E350 netbooks and I get around 6 hours playing 720P and more if I'm just surfing and don't need bluetooth. It seems like it'd be perfect for a tablet and would let you run all your X86 programs, add a transformer style keyboard with extra battery and you'd have a tablet that turns into an all day laptop with full X86 compatibility, sounds sweet to me.
As for TFA...damn, can Ballmer and Sinofsky torpedo this company a little more? Why don't they just send a page to the XP and Vista users offering Libre Office or Google docs while they are at it? Between fracturing IE all to hell, followed by keeping many games on DX9 because they refused to backport to XP, to making sure all those Vista users (Yeah i know the number is dropping but there is still millions of them and they ARE supported until 2017 as far as EOL goes) won't buy their Office suite I swear MSFT couldn't be run any worse if the team leads were picked by Cook over at Apple. Its like watching the PHB at Dilbert just bumble a company straight into the ground.
ACs don't waste your time replying, your posts are never seen by me.
Actually, LaTeX has one enormous advantage for collaborative work - you can put the document under source control and have multiple people editing it.
LaTeX has a a horrible learning curve, but I now wouldn't use anything else for anything serious - particularly if there is math included.
Who would have thought that word processing needs 1GB of RAM?
Especially from the "640k ought to be enough for anybody" company !
Muchas Gracias, Señor Edward Snowden !
I saw a Windows tablet at Staples the other day when I was picking up my Nexus 7. It's about twice as thick as any other tablet on display. I wonder why that is.
Maybe it's got a proper battery inside?
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it