Microsoft Office 2013

Microsoft Office 2013
Developer(s)Microsoft
Initial releaseJanuary 29, 2013; 11 years ago (2013-01-29)[1]
Stable release
Service Pack 1 (15.0.5603.1000) / November 7, 2023; 12 months ago (2023-11-07)[2]
Operating systemWindows 7 or later
Windows Server 2008 R2 or later[3]
PlatformIA-32, x64, ARM
PredecessorMicrosoft Office 2010 (2010)
SuccessorMicrosoft Office 2016 (2015)
Available in40 languages[4]
List of languages
English, Arabic, Bulgarian, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malay, Norwegian (Bokmål), Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Romanian, Russian, Serbian (Latin), Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese
TypeOffice suite
LicenseTrialware[5]
OneNote 2013: Freemium (since 2014)
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Microsoft Office 2013 (codenamed Office 15[6]) is a version of Microsoft Office, a productivity suite for Microsoft Windows. Unlike with Office 2010, no macOS equivalent was released.

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.[7]

Office 2013 is compatible with Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 through Windows 10 and Windows Server 2019.[8][9][10][11][8] A version of Office 2013 comes included on RT devices.[12][3] It is the last version of Microsoft Office to support Windows 7 RTM and Windows Server 2008 R2 RTM.

Development on this version of Microsoft Office was started in 2010 and ended on October 11, 2012, when Microsoft Office 2013 was released to manufacturing.[13] Microsoft released Office 2013 to general availability on January 29, 2013.[1] This version includes new features such as integration support for online services (including OneDrive, Outlook.com, Skype, Viva Engage and Flickr), improved format support for Office Open XML (OOXML), OpenDocument (ODF) and Portable Document Format (PDF) and support for multi-touch interfaces.

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. Office Web Apps are available free of charge on the web although enterprises may obtain on-premises installations for a price. Microsoft Office applications may be obtained individually; this includes Microsoft Visio, Microsoft Project and Microsoft SharePoint Designer which are not included in any of the twelve editions.

Service Pack 1 (SP1) was released on February 25, 2014.[14] Support for the original release (RTM) ended on April 14, 2015, and Service Pack 1 is required for receiving updates and support. Support for Office 2013 ended on April 11, 2023.[15]

On June 9, 2018, Microsoft announced that its forums would no longer include Office 2013 or other products in extended support among its products for discussions involving support.[16] On August 27, 2021, Microsoft announced that Microsoft Outlook 2013 SP1 with all subsequent updates will be required to connect to Microsoft 365 Exchange servers by November 1, 2021; Outlook 2013 without SP1 will no longer be supported.[17][18][additional citation(s) needed][inconsistent]

Office 2013 removed support for processors without PAE, SSE2 and NX and is also the final version of Microsoft Office that supports processors without PrefetchW, LAHF and SAHF. Its successor, Office 2016, requires a processor with PrefetchW, LAHF and SAHF in any supported architecture. It is also the final version of Microsoft Office to receive a Service Pack from Microsoft.

Despite the end of support for Office 2013 in April, Microsoft is still rolling out monthly security patches for the Office suite programs as of November 2023.[19][20]

  1. ^ a b Page, Carly (January 28, 2013). "Microsoft says Office 2013 will arrive on 29 January". The Inquirer. Incisive Media. Archived from the original on January 31, 2013. Retrieved January 29, 2013.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  2. ^ "Update history for Office 2013". learn.microsoft.com. Archived from the original on July 18, 2023. Retrieved September 14, 2023.
  3. ^ a b Ben-Zur, Liat; President, Corporate Vice; Life, Modern; Search; Devices (October 1, 2021). "It's easier to create together with Microsoft 365 and Office 2021". Microsoft 365 Blog. Archived from the original on October 6, 2021. Retrieved October 6, 2021.
  4. ^ "Language identifiers and OptionState Id values in Office 2010". Microsoft. May 12, 2010. Archived from the original on March 7, 2008. Retrieved August 16, 2010.
  5. ^ Cite error: The named reference office-trial was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  6. ^ "Exclusive: A sneak peek at Office Web Apps Preview, coming with Office 2013 (and a new logo!)". Archived from the original on July 3, 2012. Retrieved June 28, 2012.
  7. ^ "Office 2013 Public Preview: Multi-Touch and Gesture Support". Paul Thurrott’s WinSupersite. June 16, 2012. Archived from the original on October 22, 2012. Retrieved August 27, 2012.
  8. ^ a b McDougall, Patrick (July 18, 2012). "Office 2013 Won't Run On Windows XP, Vista". InformationWeek. UBM plc. Archived from the original on April 25, 2016. Retrieved April 22, 2016.
  9. ^ "System requirements for Office 2013". TechNet. Microsoft. Archived from the original on January 19, 2013. Retrieved April 22, 2016.
  10. ^ Whitney, Lance (July 19, 2012). "XP and Vista users, no Office 2013 for you". CNET. CBS Interactive. Archived from the original on April 14, 2016. Retrieved April 22, 2016.
  11. ^ Warren, Tom (July 16, 2012). "Office 2013 drops support for Windows XP and Windows Vista". The Verge. Vox Media. Archived from the original on May 3, 2016. Retrieved April 22, 2016.
  12. ^ "Building Windows for the ARM processor architecture". Microsoft. February 9, 2012. Archived from the original on November 26, 2012. Retrieved June 28, 2012.
  13. ^ Cite error: The named reference RTM date was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  14. ^ "List of all Service Pack 1 (SP1) updates for Microsoft Office 2013 and related desktop products". Microsoft. February 25, 2014. Archived from the original on February 25, 2015. Retrieved February 25, 2014.
  15. ^ "End of support for Office 2013". support.microsoft.com. Microsoft. Archived from the original on April 11, 2023. Retrieved April 11, 2023.
  16. ^ Leonhard, Woody (June 11, 2018). "Microsoft axes support on Answers Forum for Win 7, 8.1, Office 2010, 2013, many Surfaces". Computerworld. International Data Group. Archived from the original on November 9, 2020. Retrieved December 11, 2018.
  17. ^ "New minimum Outlook for Windows version requirements for Microsoft 365". Microsoft. August 27, 2021. Archived from the original on September 14, 2021. Retrieved September 14, 2021.
  18. ^ Ben-Zur, Liat; President, Corporate Vice; Life, Modern; Search; Devices (October 1, 2021). "It's easier to create together with Microsoft 365 and Office 2021". Microsoft 365 Blog. Archived from the original on October 6, 2021. Retrieved October 6, 2021.
  19. ^ "Update history for Office 2013". Microsoft. August 31, 2023. Archived from the original on September 29, 2023. Retrieved September 16, 2023.
  20. ^ "November 7, 2023, update for Outlook 2013 (KB5002514)". Microsoft. November 7, 2023. Archived from the original on November 7, 2023. Retrieved November 7, 2023.