New pricing for retail editions-The Office Home and Student edition is the basic edition of the retail Office 2013 lineup. Office 365 Small Business Premium costs $149.95 per year and adds Lync, InfoPath, hosted Exchange Server, 25GB mailboxes, 10GB of storage for the organization, and 500MB of SharePoint storage per user.ģ. Office 365 Home Premium goes for $99.95 per year and includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneNote, Publisher, and Access, plus 20GB of SkyDrive storage and 60 minutes of Skype per month. Subscription-based pricing-Two editions of the Office 2013 family-confusingly named Office 365 Home Premium and Office 365 Small Business Premium-are sold as subscriptions (not a standard retail license), making them more affordable, but you must pay every year to continue using the software. On touch-enabled hardware, gestures such as swiping with your fingers let you scroll and pressing with your fingers selects items.Ģ. Click the Touch Mode button on the Quick Access Toolbar and the Office Ribbon spreads the Office 2013 icons apart for easier touch access. Although the Office 2013 UI is designed primarily for operation with a mouse and keyboard, it also offers support for touch. Windows 8 touch support-Without a doubt, the biggest change in Office 2013 is support for the new Windows 8 touch screen interface. So what makes Office 2013 different from the preceding versions of Office? A lot! Let's look at the top 10 new features in Office 2013.ġ. Office 2013 was released to manufacturing on October 11, 2012, and was released for general availability on January 29, 2013.
Microsoft released so many new products in 2012 that it was easy to overlook the latest release of the flagship Office product.