Summary: If you're a Microsoft volume
licensee with Software Assurance, you can download the final, RTM bits
of Office 2013 and the accompanying 2013 servers as of this week.
Ms has encouraged out the ultimate, released-to-manufacturing (RTM) pieces of Workplace 2013 and the supporting 2013 hosts (Exchange 2013, SharePoint 2013 and Lync 2013) to amount certificate clients this weeks time.
A few Ms clients informed me of accessibility via Tweets on Oct 30. (I think @danielgut was the first to do so. Thanks!)
Microsoft authorities verified that amount licensees can obtain the value now. A representative sent the following declaration via e-mail:
“Volume Certification clients with Software Guarantee can obtain the Workplace 2013 programs as well as other Workplace items such as SharePoint 2013, Lync 2013, Return 2013 and Venture 2013 through the Volume Certification Assistance Center. These items will be available on the Volume Certification price list on Dec 1."
If you're an Workplace 365 Business customer, the latest trend of "Office 15" features are beginning to move out, as well. These representative mentioned that Ms has started moving out new abilities to Workplace 365 Business customers via Windows regular service up-dates. These up-dates will happen beginning in late Oct and continue through general accessibility (early 2013, according to Microsoft).
One of my connections recently told me that Ms is likely to "launch" and assign Workplace 2013 as being generally/commercially available in Jan 2013, rather than in Feb 2013, as had been expected by some of my resources. That Jan time frame is practical given Workplace 2013 was launched to production in Oct -- a month earlier than Ms had been informing some of its associates would be the RTM time frame.
Microsoft started moving out the new Workplace customer and hosting server programs to MSDN and TechNet members the other day. Users running Microsoft windows RT, such as a included review edition of Workplace 2013 Home & Student, can update instantly to the ultimate edition of the package via Microsoft windows Upgrade.
A few Ms clients informed me of accessibility via Tweets on Oct 30. (I think @danielgut was the first to do so. Thanks!)
Microsoft authorities verified that amount licensees can obtain the value now. A representative sent the following declaration via e-mail:
“Volume Certification clients with Software Guarantee can obtain the Workplace 2013 programs as well as other Workplace items such as SharePoint 2013, Lync 2013, Return 2013 and Venture 2013 through the Volume Certification Assistance Center. These items will be available on the Volume Certification price list on Dec 1."
If you're an Workplace 365 Business customer, the latest trend of "Office 15" features are beginning to move out, as well. These representative mentioned that Ms has started moving out new abilities to Workplace 365 Business customers via Windows regular service up-dates. These up-dates will happen beginning in late Oct and continue through general accessibility (early 2013, according to Microsoft).
One of my connections recently told me that Ms is likely to "launch" and assign Workplace 2013 as being generally/commercially available in Jan 2013, rather than in Feb 2013, as had been expected by some of my resources. That Jan time frame is practical given Workplace 2013 was launched to production in Oct -- a month earlier than Ms had been informing some of its associates would be the RTM time frame.
Microsoft started moving out the new Workplace customer and hosting server programs to MSDN and TechNet members the other day. Users running Microsoft windows RT, such as a included review edition of Workplace 2013 Home & Student, can update instantly to the ultimate edition of the package via Microsoft windows Upgrade.
