Office Reaches RTM!

Today we reached an important milestone in the development of the new Office. 

Moments ago, the Office engineering team signed off on the Release to Manufacturing (RTM) build. This milestone means the coding and testing phase of the project is complete and we are now focused on releasing the new Office via multiple distribution channels to our consumer and business customers.

This is the most ambitious release of Office we've ever done. It spans the full family of Office applications, servers and cloud services. The new Office has a fresh, touch friendly design that works beautifully on Windows 8 and unlocks modern scenarios in social, reading, note-taking, meetings and communications. We are proud to achieve this milestone and are eager to deliver this exciting release to our customers.

General availability is planned for the first quarter of 2013. Starting October 19, customers purchasing Office 2010 from local retailers or resellers will receive the new Office for free upon availability. Customers will also see a preview version of the new Office on Windows RT devices, beginning with the Windows 8 launch on October 26. 

Additionally, we have a number of programs that provide business customers with early access so they can begin testing, piloting and adopting Office within their organizations:

  • We will begin rolling out new capabilities to Office 365 Enterprise customers in our next service update, starting in November through general availability.
  • Volume Licensing customers with Software Assurance will be able to download the Office 2013 applications as well as other Office products including SharePoint 2013, Lync 2013 and Exchange 2013 through the Volume Licensing Service Center by mid-November. These products will be available on the Volume Licensing price list on December 1.
  • IT professionals and developers will be able to download the final version via their TechNet or MSDN subscriptions by mid-November.

Please stay tuned for more specifics on general availability dates and other Office launch news. In the meantime, if you'd like to give the pre-release version a try, you can visit office.com/preview.

Thank you to the millions of people who have been testing early releases of the new Office. We are grateful for your support. Your invaluable feedback has helped us make the new Office the best Office ever.

Kirk Koenigsbauer
Corporate Vice President
Microsoft Office Division

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  • As an Chief Architect at AvePoint now for nearly a year and ...

  • Office 2013 erreicht RTM-Status

  • @Jan.  Yes, if you purchase Office 2010 or Office for Mac 2011, you are eligible to receive one year of Office 365 Home Premium for free - or the equivalent 2013 offering.

  • Is there an available column in line-view that can show the Retention Tags applied to messages so that a user can sort and locate messages with different tags?

  • @adamUCF, we bring our technologies to market through a wide variety of channels for organizations, IT pros, developers, and consumers and as on-premises products as well as cloud services available in retail, online and from partners.  We take time to make sure that the experience customers get through each of these channels is excellent.

  • @buggy, Office Home & Student 2013 is licensed for 1 device.

  • @star-tang@outlook.com, thanks for the feedback. :)  Windows RT devices will include a preview of Office Home & Student 2013 RT (say that three times fast).  Customers will get the final release starting in November through January, depending on their language.  We'll have specifics regarding the language update schedule on this blog on October 26, but the main point is that you can use the new Office on your Windows RT tablet from day 1 and be sure that you'll get the latest when it's available in your language.

  • @Nathan, @AGNXNetwork, yes, there is a darker theme thanks to feedback from testers like you.  Thanks for  your contributions to the new Office!

  • It is one of those days and I don't remember when these many Microsoft products went into RTM mode at

  • Se ha publicado en el Blog de Microsoft Office la fecha de la nueva versión 2013. http://blogs

  • Se ha publicado en el Blog de Microsoft Office la fecha de la nueva versión 2013. http://blogs

  • Hello guys will office 2013 RTM be available on dreamspark premium?

  • New interesting Office 365 subscription cover consumer and small business

  • So if I buy 2010 H&S now (or after 19th for that matter) and use it on 3 PC, then I can either choose to upgrade to 365 H&P (1-year sub), or 2013 H&S licensing and ditch the install on 2 of them?

    That sounds like a major step back for me.

    Thanks.

    P.S. Found this... win7vista.com/index.php

  • a dark tee like 2003 and above had? the all white is so hard to look at in preview...will it be available in preview?

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