Microsoft Office 2013 unveiled, Windows XP not supported?

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(CBS News) Microsoft unveiled a preview of its popular Office suite Wednesday at a press event in San Francisco.

CNET: Hands-on with the New Microsoft Office

Among the new features is touch-screen support to better integrate with the new Windows 8, a stylus content creating feature called Inking, cloud integration via SkyDrive and professional social network Yammer.

Windows XP users may be left out in the cold. According to the blog The Verge, the new Office suite will only work with Windows 7 and Windows 8, dropping support for Windows XP and Vista. While Windows XP was launched by Microsoft over 10 years ago, it remains a popular operating system.

Office preview is available now at Microsoft's website.

[an65001]

I could care less. I happily use Windows 2000, still on a brand new Ivy Bridge PC. Why? Because it is the best OS for me. I'm secured with Antivirus, Firewall, etc. which makes up for the lack of support. I am also using modern software such as Google Chrome. Updating and security risk is pure brainwash. Don't fall for it.

[Harneyempire]

I forgot to add - some video games won't install either like Call of Duty
and XCOM. MS is contacting software vendors to have there apps peek at the kernal. Some companies are too smart to fall for that and will target the entire OS market.

Remember it the Application that sits on top of Windows X. Yeh - try and play Call on duty using your fingers on your screen. good luck with that.
( and clean your fingers before u touch that screen )

[Harneyempire]

Can't you blind techs how this is done.

During the install the app looks at what windows kernal you have.
If it detects the XP and soon the Vista Kernal it will not install.

There are work around,
These apps CAN run on windows XP. This is MS attempt to forve sales of windows 8

[ZenZenPup]

Fortunately for all the landfills of America, this sort of nonsense does not require any extra paper to be wasted...

When someone using Linux Mint can shoot 1000 photos, write 400 pages of text, and then put them together in an eBook for sale - then it's time to start thinking of calling Linux practical for the masses.

[Scimajor]

We're going to have to face some hard facts:

1. 32 bit operating systems are going extinct (as is 32 bit hardware).
2. Windows XP is a dinosaur. You can't even run Windows XP on new computers as the new hardware simply isn't supportable under XP.
3. Windows Vista is not an option as it was almost as bad as Windows ME.
4. Unless you want to go Mac/Apple (WAY more expensive with a very small fraction of the software support as there is for PC) you're going to have to go with Windows 7 or 8.
5. Linux is for servers and people who like to tinker. Linux is NOT practical for consumers.

Deal with it and move on.

Sorry but it doesn't end there as the advent of tablets, smart phones and distributed computing will make desktops and laptops nothing more than landfill waste. I can already run MS Office and games Assassins Creed on my tablet using distributed computing services like OnLive.

Mundi est mutata (Latin).

[Scimajor]

" I can already run MS Office and games Assassins Creed on my tablet using distributed computing services like OnLive. "

oops. Typo! I meant "games like Assassins Creed". Oh well.

[pwgrant]

Linux not practical for consumers?! That is REALLY ignorant. Ever used Linux Mint? Probably don't what it is. Even my kids like Ubuntu on mine, and Mint on theirs over Windows primarily for speed. There is nothing they haven't been able to do in Linux (even a netflix workaround to watch that gawd awful "Pretty Little Liars" show.)

Been using Vista too, for years. No problems here, though it does not perform as fast as Linux.

In addition, Open Office and Libre Office are far superior in function and speed than that disaster called the M$Office.

Landfill waste? I think not. People are too attached to their mice; John D'Vorak made that same mistake too. Deal with it, and move on.

It's the same tired Ford Vs. Chevy nonsense arguments.

[Void-Master]

I still use and love XP Pro. But as it becomes obsolete and has to be replaced, I'll migrate my entire network to FreeBSD.

[-TeaPartyNation--]

"Microsoft Office 2013 unveiled, Windows XP not supported?"

Hey, micro$oft - I'll give up my Windows XP only when its pried from my cold, dead hands.

[thekman58]

Comment fits the screen name
No compromise, my way or the highway (LOL)
Afraid MSFT has to be more forward thinking and trying to maintain compatibility with a 10 year old OS is too much of an anchor. Windows 7 and 8 API's offer so much more.