Microsoft Office 365 customer preview of 2013 Office edition launched

[bekdik]

There are a few differences between the Office 365-delivered versions of Office 2013 and the traditional, MSI-based versions. The big one is that the latter does not allow you to run Outlook 2013 side-by-side with a previous Outlook version. If you use Click-To-Run, you can run Outlook side-by-side with a previous version.

Does outlook 2013 run with Exchange 2003?

[Speedster]

Lol, when I opened Outlook for the first time it's a bit of a shock and you don't know what to make of it. Now, after a couple of hours of using it, I suddenly realised why... The toolbars and windows and chrome just kind of "fades away", leaving you to focus on what you're busy with. It's... odd... but it works great!

NOW I'm impressed!

I kind of agree with you here. Enjoying the look and feel of the new version.

[czc]

You joking? Hahaha.

Nope, he is back today saying 3.1 was better.

[Arthur]

Word 2013 can now edit PDFs - kind-of.
A PDF is opened in Word 2013 in read-only. Click View > Edit, and you can edit the text. Obviously pic elements (which might include some text in certain PDFs) can't be edited. The edited PDF defaults to a docx save, but you can then save it as a PDF with different filename, just not over your original PDF. And to think I paid $99 for my Foxit PDF Editor.

[elvis_presley]

"Open source" is why I have avoided the problem with my phone now running Android 4.0.
Or perhaps I should have gone with a Lumia and be stuck on an old version of the OS with my only option being "buy a new phone"

Hilarious indeed.

screw that. because Samsung hadn't updated their tab 10.1 for ZA wth ICS, I decided to root my tablet and force an update. tried 3 distros. all of them from the "experts" that said "no, this is the best, try it" ... long story short, none of them worked properly. all 3 drained my battery in about 1/2 honeycomb time (I assume no battery drivers) and chrome was so unstable I went back to the default browser. i'm now back in honeycomb and it's 100% stable and 10 hour battery life is back.

open source is no substitute for 1st party updates. or are you suggesting I should muck in and do some ICS coding to get it stable?

You're right. There's nothing funny about it at all. My WP7 device might only get another 6 months of updates, but I'm pretty sure it'll still have more support than most Android devices, and a LOT less problems than 3rd party hacked-on versions.

[elvis_presley]

if anyone's interested, here's the reason this release of Office is Vista and later only: http://arstechnica.com/information-t...service-works/ - it's based on App-V. Going to make enterprise admin's job an absolute DREAM in the long run.

What this means is that whatever PC you sit down on, when you log in with your credentials, it'll stream down the bits of Office you need to get your work done. Same if you upgrade your PC at home or log in at another, just log in and all apps using this model would transparently stream in on demand.

[czc]

if anyone's interested, here's the reason this release of Office is Vista and later only: http://arstechnica.com/information-t...service-works/ - it's based on App-V. Going to make enterprise admin's job an absolute DREAM in the long run.

What this means is that whatever PC you sit down on, when you log in with your credentials, it'll stream down the bits of Office you need to get your work done. Same if you upgrade your PC at home or log in at another, just log in and all apps using this model would transparently stream in on demand.

What sort of bandwidth do you need for this?

[rwenzori]

What sort of bandwidth do you need for this?

You'd be a bit stuck if Seacom or SAT-3 are brokken LOL.

[Mr Feesh]

ok I'm bloody confused, I thought Office 365 was the cloud based integration offering to Office 2010 and I explored that for our office earlier this year but at the time it was only available in the US and has now recently be launched in SA http://www.microsoft.com/en-za/offic...-software.aspx

yet based on this article and what is on the US M$ website this is the next iteration of Office?

Can you use office 365 as a purely back up point of view? Was thinking of setting it up on my dad's work pc, so that his stuff will be backed up online (He would barely if ever want to access it from some where else)