Microsoft Office Available on Android and Apple Mobiles in 2013

It is now known that Microsoft will present the version of the Office 2013 as a productivity suite to be available on Android and Apple Mobiles and Tablets, however the timeline for the availability was not previously known until it was stated a plan of the Office 2013 where its general availability is scheduled to arrive early in 2013.

Furthermore, it now also know Office 2013 will be available in December 2012 for corporate users, however the consumer versions of home office 2013 will only become available not before February 2013.  Furthermore, Office 365 for mobile devices and tablets will appear in March 2013.

Microsoft stated "Office Mobile will work across Windows Phones, Android phones and iOS." Also in a recent development Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer wrote a letter that contains a vision that Microsoft is shifting its model to focus on devices and services.

Microsoft Office 2013 RT Final Versions Available Starting November 2012

The new Microsoft version of its Office Suite labelled as Microsoft Office 2013, will also be available as Office 2013 RT for devices only. It then follows that it will be offered to customers that purchase Win RT operated devices as part of their pre-installed offerings, as a result it will not be possible to purchase the office suite as an individual product rather as a solution "included" with ARM-based Windows RT tablets. Furthermore, it will not be available at the Windows Store.

The final version of Office Home & Student 2013 RT will become available and it is expected to be sometime between November to January 2013, in the case of customers that purchase Windows RT devices before the period of the final version releases, then it is possible to upgrade to final versions for free on the normal Windows Update settings.

Below are some of the features not available at the Office 2013 RT versions:

• Macros, add-ins and creating Data Models in Excel 2013 RT. 


• Searching for embedded audio and video files, recording A/V notes, recording narrations in PowerPoint 2013 RT and importing from an attachment scanner with OneNote 2013 RT. 


• Older media formats in PowerPoint, not able to edit equations written in Equation Editor 3.0.