Microsoft Office 2013 Not Compatible With Windows XP, Vista

hypnosec writes "The newly unveiled productivity suite from Microsoft, Office 2013, won't be running on older operating systems like Windows XP and Vista it has been revealed. Office 2013 is said to be only compatible with PCs, laptops or tablets that are running on the latest version of Windows i.e. either Windows 7 or not yet released Windows 8. According to a systems requirements page for Microsoft for Office 2013 customer preview, the Office 2010 successor is only compatible with Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Server 2008 R2 or Windows Server 2012. This was confirmed by a Microsoft spokesperson. Further the minimum requirements states that systems need to be equipped with at least a 1 GHz processor and should have 1 GB of RAM for 32-bit systems or 2 GB for 64-bit hardware. The minimum storage space that should be available is 3 GB along with a DirectX 10-compatible graphics card for users wanting hardware acceleration."

MS: Money Suckers

[Anonymous Coward]

Reminds me of the Weird Al video with the surgeon carefully extracting money from his patient on the operating room table.

Re:Lol

[MightyMartian]

I wonder what the requirements for Notepad will be.

Re:Lol

[Anonymous Coward]

256k to write a letter, 1.99gb to display that letter with the Metro interface.

Re:DirectX?

[Tough Love]

Precisely why would Microsoft Office need DirectX? a 3D spreadsheet maybe? Maybe a really awesome animated book report?

Clippy3D.

Re:Not Compatible With Windows XP, Vista

[gmuslera]

The box says "Windows 7 or better", so it should run in Ubuntu and MacOSX

Re:Let me get this straight

[masternerdguy]

But but but TEH RIBBON!

Re:Lol

[Mashiki]

Somewhere between 640k and hell.

Re:Good

[HappyEngineer]

Good. XP needs to be wiped out.

Why? Do you just hate old software that works or did it run over your dog?

Re:Lol

[GigaplexNZ]

Except it doesn't work with the Metro interface.

Re:Wait a second!

[c0lo]

I saw a Windows tablet at Staples the other day when I was picking up my Nexus 7. It's about twice as thick as any other tablet on display. I wonder why that is.

My guess: thermal insulation... you see, it's bad when the components overheat because of the strain Office 2013 put on them, but is worse when the customers suffer burns because of it.

Re:Better

[Anonymous Coward]

I, on the other hand, will be using only spotted owl feather quills and writing with ink made from the blood of baby pandas. It is more expensive, but the medium is, as you know, the message.

Re:Lol

[DeathFromSomewhere]

A neckbear!? Sweet jesus tell me how I can get one of those.

Re:Good

[symbolset]

Old software has bits that rust. They oxidize into AOL subscriptions. You don't want that.

Re:Wait a second!

[symbolset]

They need the extra thickness for the patent licenses.

Computers

[MicroSlut]

Gosh darn it all, I purchased a USB device but my 486 DX2 66 doesn't have a USB port, so I purchased a USB card so I could use my USB device and wouldn't you know it the USB card is PCI and I only have ISA slots. Then I puchased one of these new fangled LCD displays but my Trident video card couldn't push 1440x900 so I purchased a NVidia graphics card and wouldn't you know it the graphics card is PCIe and I don't even have an AGP slot! Then I purchased the new Office 2013 and put in my CD-ROM and wouldn't you know that Office 2013 is on a DVD! Sumabitch.

Re:Lol

[LordLimecat]

Same as always. Take the amount of data being worked with, multiply it by two, and then lock up the entire machine.

Re:Good

[Anonymous Coward]

> $US 3.5 million dollars

3.5 million US dollars dollars

Re:VIM

[spauldo]

Ah, you want emacs then.

Re:Good

[justforgetme]

That wasn't windows 95 it was the next iteration of kde ;-)

Re:You poor sap

[Anonymous Coward]

He never said 'primary tool.' Though that would be a good description for you.

Re:Lol

[Alex Belits]

A good 99% of the population will never bother, they have better things to do than spend hours learning that mess, like actually writing what they needed a WYSIWYG word processor for in the first place!

A good 99% of the population will never bother, they have better things to do than study medicine, like actually healing the sick through prayer and blood-letting.

Re:Good

[AngryDeuce]

Their suggestion to delete System32 worked great for speeding up my computer, too!

Re:Good

[jaymemaurice]

My laptop and Windows installation is metric. Do I delete System25?

Re:Lol

[tehcyder]

I absolutely agree with you, but criticising LaTeX on slashdot is a bit like posting that the Pope's a paedophile on the Opus Dei chat forums.