Download Microsoft Office 2013 SP1

Microsoft has released the first service pack for Office 2013. The update, which will be in separate 32bit– and 64bitdownloads are available through Microsoft Update, but if several PCs need to be updated, individual downloads may be more convenient. Microsoft Office is one of the most widely used office suites in both the business and consumer markets. However, free packages such as LibreOffice are catching up on their technical backlog and are becoming increasingly interesting for the latter group. Microsoft Office includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and Access, as well as a large number of wizards and tools to make processing texts, images and sounds easier. The main improvements coming with SP1 can be found below:

Overview of Office 2013 SP1 improvements

The following are the key areas of improvement that are offered by this SP1:

• Improves compatibility with Windows 8.1.
• Improves compatibility with Internet Explorer 11.
• Improves compatibility with modern hardware, such as high-DPI devices and the precision touchpad.
• Provides new apps for Office capabilities and APIs for third-party developers.

Outlook 2013 SP1

• Provides support for task pane apps in Outlook 2013 to enable third-party developers to extend the compose experience for email messages and calendar items.

PowerPoint 2013 SP1

• Provides ability to insert and use content apps in PowerPoint 2013 slides.

Lync 2013 SP1

This service pack fixes the Lync 2013 issues that are described in the following Microsoft Knowledge Base (KB) articles:

• 2919506 Can’t hear the first few words that a callee speaks when they answer a call in Lync 2013
• 2919507 The “Program Events” sound setting is reset to the default value after you restart Lync 2013
• 2919508 Can’t rotate the screen orientation of a video window in a Lync 2013 video conference on a Windows 8.1-based device
• 2919510 A pie chart clock icon appears in the “Conversations” tab as a meeting icon in Lync 2013