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Microsoft Office 2013

by Microsoft
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  • ASIN: B008P46PN4
  • Date first available at Amazon.com: October 19, 2012
  • Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars A great software suite but no reason to upgrade January 4, 2013
I'm one of the biggest fans of Office - my entire career I have used the various components both as a user and developer and created some great results with relative ease. Excel might be the best piece of software ever written (Outlook is not) and scarily clever things have been written in Access that would otherwise require major development efforts. Put simply, very few offices anywhere survive without a copy of Office somewhere, it's simply so important.

That said, Office peaked in 2003 and 95% of the software in 2013 is functionally identical. I've never met anyone who likes the ribbon that was forced upon us in 2007, which reduced power users to tears and likely generated a serious amount of hate mail to Microsoft, and it continues to this day with no way to go back to toolbars. The color scheme - or lack of it - is really difficult to live with and merges everything together on the screen with no ability to delineate between the user data and the software functions. The menus are all in UPPERCASE and some of them take over the screen entirely when selected for no good reason whatsoever.

Office 2013 integrates with SkyDrive but who really cares if you save to Google Drive or DropBox. There are some additional cosmetic features in all the apps but nothing that's going to excite a regular user. It's very touchscreen focused which seems crazy since I doubt most corporate users will ever want to move from a mouse to a gesture. Compared with 2007, the applications are slower to launch though faster in processing larger amounts of data.

PowerPoint is the weakest application in the suite and looks very dated compared with KeyNote. I'm surprised how little this application has progressed from its early days.
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28 of 31 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Powerful New Features, More Content Oriented September 14, 2012
By R. Song
Being a developer, I got the preview release.

Works on the following operating systems: Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Server 2008 R2, and Windows Server 2012. It is NOT compatible with XP or Vista. You need .net 3.5 or better (Most computers have this anyway)

Office 2013 has a Windows 8 UI style appearance, but the functionality is almost like Office 2010. THe ribbon configuration is almost identical to Office 2010. I think the learning curve between Office 2010 and 2013 is very small.

The new stuff:

Use of Skydrive - you can save all your documents to the cloud and have them accessible to all your devices. Of course, you need a sky drive account. You don't have to be online to access your documents, only to sync them. (WHich means they are still taking up room on your hard drive...) You can also opt to use a cloud based fee based subscription service that gives you instant updates and allows you tap in to your social networking sites.

Improved AutoSave. After installing some new software, I had a couple unfortunate lock ups before I had everything working properly. THanks to the auto save, I lost very little.

I've used Word 2013 the most. It has some handy new features. I was stunned to find that I could edit PDFs. Very cool feature. Showing and hiding the ribbon takes some getting used to. If you want to hide the ribbon, click on the push pin in the lower right corner of the ribbon. To get it back, scroll over a menu item to display it and then click on the pushpin to lock it down.

WHen first opened (after taking awhile to start) Word (or any of the apps) displays a few of your most recent docs and some templates for new ones. So, if you want to create a new doc, you click on one of the templates.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent New Look, Fast, Functional December 27, 2012
I decided to try the Office 2013 Preview, since I had upgraded to Windows 8 on my home PC. I wasn't sure what to expect, but I expected it to be similar to Office 2010, with some minor enhancements and improvements. Instead, what I got was a massive upgrade to an already great system.

Evolution

Office 2007 - Introduced the ribbon interface, which, once you get used to it, isn't as bad as many would have you believe and can be quite handy, if configured to suit your needs.

Office 2010 - More polished version of the ribbon interface, more intuitive, much faster, and more stable version of 2007.

Office 2013...

I don't know that the performance increase from 2010 to 2013 is as drastic as what I noticed in 2007 to 2010, but it is certainly there. That aside, I do like the interface, and I've found it to be very intuitive across all of the included applications. They have moved towards a more web-like interface, in many aspects, which simplifies the interface in many ways. It is also designed in such a way that many inputs were considered. I use a mouse and keyboard, but it is clearly also ready for a touch or stylus input, much like Windows 8 is supportive of both input types.

The integration with SkyDrive and other web features is also a welcomed improvement. I didn't have any major issues with this in the past, but it was certainly an area in which Microsoft Office was lacking. This is no longer the case, and it really does take away one of the main selling point of an entirely web-based competitor that starts with a G. From someone who has used both Google Apps and OpenOffice.org extensively, I can honestly say that, while the other two have their place (even if OpenOffice.
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1.0 out of 5 stars MS Office 2013 misses the point of simplifying the daily task
Perhaps Microsoft should consider two versions of their software. The Supreme-Want-to-Publish-the-New-Tax-Code-User that thrives on learning an entirely new mouse maze of new tools... Read more
Published 1 month ago by DR
1.0 out of 5 stars Why oh why?? Was the Office 2013 development team colorblind?
If you are a human and have color vision you may find the new Office 2013 suite quite a disappointment. Read more
Published 4 months ago by R. Murray
1.0 out of 5 stars Horrible - do not buy unless you have to
Who ever thought at Microsoft they were making a better product should be fired. 1st. Instead of clicking on a word or excel folder and opening your document Microsoft feels you... Read more
Published 4 months ago by No Stress
1.0 out of 5 stars This upgrade is incredibly awful. Stick with 2010.
Between constant constant crashes and slow responses to actions, I must've lost hours already after upgrading to this for three days. Read more
Published 6 months ago by MWC
1.0 out of 5 stars I hate 201 Home and business
The too bars and visibility of the ribbon is very bad. The improvement from window XP2003 to office 2013 are so bad and it is time consuming and I hate it.
Published 6 months ago by G. D. Mayer
1.0 out of 5 stars Skip Office 2013
The list of things I don't like about MS Office 2013 would take too long to list. 2010 was a good product. Read more
Published 8 months ago by Rnmedic1180
1.0 out of 5 stars Bad to Worse
Office 2013 works great with Windows 7, load it on something with Windows 8 and it is nothing but @#$%.
With Office 2013, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint... Read more
Published 10 months ago by rgr
1.0 out of 5 stars What is Microsoft Doing
Not sure what Microsoft is doing - Office 2007 was great, 2010 was ok and 2013 is a disaster. One hour on the phone just to install it. Read more
Published 11 months ago by Mary Jo Alton
1.0 out of 5 stars Hate Office 2013
I have used Office since it first came out. Never have I had the problems with a new version like this time. Read more
Published 11 months ago by pisco
3.0 out of 5 stars Should call it "Blando Soft"
First, let me say that I'm not a business user, but someone who used Office 2010 Pro Word, Outlook, Excel on a limited basis, and occasionally I use Publisher, so factor in my... Read more
Published 16 months ago by Rob
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