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."

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Let me get this straight

[Tough Love]

Let me get this straight. Microsoft, with 93 thousand employees can't manage to make their main software product compatible with previous versions of its operating system, while the Document Foundation with, um, zero employees can? Did I get that straight?

Re:Good

[InspectorGadget1964]

It does not bother me, I will not be spending my money on M$ products. I run Office Libre on Linux. Everything for free and I can read / save in M$ format if I need to send or receive anything in those ugly expensive formats

Re:Lol

[Anonymous Coward]

Too bad open office needs about 10 minutes to open a 1500 page document, while office does it instantly.

Re:Lol

[iamhassi]

2 gig of RAM to type a letter

This.

Came here to say the same thing. Seriously M$? Need the latest OS and 2gb RAM? What, no Nvidia AMD Radeon 1200 pixel shaders? How many cores do I need?

And what exactly does this do that the old Office 2010 doesn't do? Oh I can create a doc on my PC and edit it on my phone? I can do that now. Edit PDFs? Um.... great? Why is Windows 7 required for that? Embed videos? In a Word DOCUMENT? Check the weather in Outlook? Ok now you're just getting ridiculous.

Re:Lol

[hairyfish]

Here we go again.. I'm sure I heard these same lame arguments when Windows 95 came out. Here we are 17 years on and MS is still winning and open source alternatives are still in the toilet. For those that missed it the first 37 times, Joe Average doesn't mind paying for the latest toy with the latest shiny on it. No amount of gloating about your crappy 1% market share will change this. And I thought Slashdot is supposed to be where the smart people hang out....

You poor sap

[SmallFurryCreature]

Oh well, your own fault, you should have paid attention in school. Then a word processor wouldn't be considered your primary tool. Do you know what we call people for who a typewriters is the primary tool? A typist. Even the janitor gets more respect.

Re:You poor sap

[tehcyder]

Oh well, your own fault, you should have paid attention in school. Then a word processor wouldn't be considered your primary tool. Do you know what we call people forwho a typewriters is the primary tool? A typist. Even the janitor gets more respect.

It's "whom", fucktard.

Maybe if you had used a word processor with a grammar check your ignorant post wouldn't have been quite so laughable.

I suppose you communicate via hand written notes on parchment?

Re:Good

[tehcyder]

It was just discraseful

English is not a spelll-as-you-speak language. It's spelled "disgraceful" however you pronounce it.