office 2013 final on technet & MSDN websites for download

[hclarkjr]

i just downloaded it now from technet.

 

[corkyg]

OK - I can get it - but what does it do that 2010 doesn't?

 

[hclarkjr]

OK - I can get it - but what does it do that 2010 doesn't?

not sure, seems about the same so far. it installed pretty easily for me

 

[Dulanic]

not sure, seems about the same so far. it installed pretty easily for me

There is a handful of changes.

http://www.groovypost.com/review/new-features-office-2013-vs-office-2010/

 

[hclarkjr]

found this http://blogs.gartner.com/guy-creese/2012/07/17/office-2013-vs-2010/
Office 2013 vs. Office 2010: Compare and Contrast

by Guy Creese | July 17, 2012 | Comments Off
Following is a high-level comparison of Office 2013 vs. Office 2010 based on yesterday’s announcement. This is not a comprehensive list, but rather some highlights.

• File formats: The same.
• User interface: Office 2013 is much more tablet (touch and stylus) friendly. It’s also much cleaner: the UI is less cluttered and the chrome is gone. Besides making it easier on the eyes, this probably takes some load off of the graphics processors, making the app run faster on less powerful devices.
• Word: Documents are saved to SkyDrive by default (assuming you’re online and signed in to your organizational account). When signed in to SkyDrive, the system remembers where you last were in the document.
• Excel: Excel watches your actions, recognizes the pattern, and auto-completes data entry (called “Flash Fill”). It also recommends some suitable Charts and PivotTables so you can select the best one. Users can share workbooks by attaching them to an IM.
• PowerPoint: When online, you can add pictures from services such as Facebook and Flickr without having to save them first to your local PC.
• Outlook: Outlook now supports multiple email accounts, just like the iPad has for the past several years.
• OneNote: Synchronous playback of notes and recordings. You can record while you’re typing, and then go back to the note and hear what was said while you were typing.
• Office 365: In the past, Office 365 was all about business. In other words, Office 365 competed against Google Apps for Business; there was no Microsoft equivalent to the consumer-oriented Google Apps. That has changed. There’s now an “Office 365 Home Premium,” which offers software versions of Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook, OneNote, Access, and Publisher on up to five PCs and 20GB of SkyDrive storage.
• iPad Support: Unclear. Microsoft currently offers OneNote and Lync for iOS devices. All tablet discussion today centered around Windows 8 tablets. So it’s unclear whether the strategy is (1) back to Windows first or (2) we’re writing more iPad apps but we aren’t talking about them yet.
• Automatic Saving to SkyDrive: If you’re signed in to SkyDrive, the system saves documents to SkyDrive by default. This is true for Word, PowerPoint, OneNote, and Publisher.

 

[blurredvision]

Outlook: Outlook now supports multiple email accounts, just like the iPad has for the past several years.

I don't get this one, Outlook has been able to manage multiple email accounts for the past few iterations.

 

[zCypher]

I don't get this one, Outlook has been able to manage multiple email accounts for the past few iterations.

When has outlook not been able to manage multiple accounts? :|

 

[Berryracer]

I don't get this one, Outlook has been able to manage multiple email accounts for the past few iterations.

ind33d!

Outlook 2013 nothing more than what 2010 can do!

All those extra bells and whistles are useless to teh m3h

 

[Conscript]

I don't get this one, Outlook has been able to manage multiple email accounts for the past few iterations.

Probably what they mean is when you start outlook 2013 for the first time, after you add your first email it proactively asks if you if you want to add another. No real difference ultimately.

 

[corkyg]

Looks to me like a package for tablets, etc. 2010 does everything I need done - efficiently and effectively. Documents on SkyDrive? That does it! Yechh!

 

[Mr. Pedantic]

I would sacrifice all of those fancy new features for decent multithreading support.

 

[JJChicken]

For most uses, Office 2007 is enough. But for some of us "Power" users, each iteration of Office is welcomed. I probably use Excel for 10 hours a day, every day...amazing how useful it is!

 

[blurredvision]

Looks to me like a package for tablets, etc. 2010 does everything I need done - efficiently and effectively. Documents on SkyDrive? That does it! Yechh!

What's wrong with that? It's awesome to have that fully integrated if you're a SkyDrive user.

 

[Nothinman]

OK - I can get it - but what does it do that 2010 doesn't?

Scream in your face with excessive use of all caps?

I don't get this one, Outlook has been able to manage multiple email accounts for the past few iterations.

Outlook didn't support multiple Exchange accounts until 2010, but that's not new to 2013 unless there were still some restrictions to it that I didn't know about that they've removed.

 

[pauldun170]

I don't get this one, Outlook has been able to manage multiple email accounts for the past few iterations.

That article became a little suspect for me after the guy wrote that.

Probably what they mean is when you start outlook 2013 for the first time, after you add your first email it proactively asks if you if you want to add another. No real difference ultimately.

Outlook does this already.

Perhaps what the guy meant is that Outlook home screen now combines all your email accounts and is not tied to just one account?

I use Outlook 2010 and manage about 7 accounts with it, both IMAP and POP.

 

[corkyg]

What's wrong with that? It's awesome to have that fully integrated if you're a SkyDrive user.

I guess I will never be a Skydrive user. I do not trust "the cloud." Ergo, for me it is "yecchhh!"

 

[blurredvision]

Outlook does this already.

Perhaps what the guy meant is that Outlook home screen now combines all your email accounts and is not tied to just one account?

I use Outlook 2010 and manage about 7 accounts with it, both IMAP and POP.

Outlook does this already, too. You can either dump all your email accounts into the same data file or separate them into each, all under the same profile.

I think we just need to chalk it up to that guy not knowing what he's talking about.

 

[hclarkjr]

i actually like it, less clutter than 2010 and it integrates with windows 8. when i am running apps it will alert me in the app that i have email!!! yohooo!!!