Easily manage your email, calendar, contacts, and tasks. Push email support keeps your inbox up to date, conversation view groups related messages, and calendars can be viewed side-by-side for planning.

It’s your very own digital notebook, so you can keep notes, ideas, web pages, photos, even audio and video all in one place. Whether you’re at home, in the office, or on the move, you can take it all with you wherever you go while sharing and collaborating with others.

Your stuff anytime, anywhere   

Word

In the new Read Mode, text reflows automatically in columns for easier on-screen reading

Fewer menus means more focus on your content—see only the tools you need, when you need them

Open a PDF in Word, and edit content just as if you created it in Word

Show your style by using Word templates in more than 40 categories      

Excel

Each workbook has its own window, making it easier to work on two workbooks--or two monitors-- at once

New functions in the math and trig, statistical, engineering, date and time, lookup and reference, logical, and text function categories

The new Recommended Charts button lets you pick from a variety of charts that are right for your data  

PowerPoint

Presenter View allows you to see your notes on your monitor while the audience only sees the slide

Smart Guides automatically appear when your objects are close to even, and tell you when objects are spaced evenly

Support for more multimedia formats, such as .mp4 and .mov, more high-definition content, and more built-in codecs                

OneNote

Smoothly draw, erase, and edit with your finger, stylus, or mouse on any touch-capable device

OneNote automatically converts your handwriting to text, so no worries about your handwriting

The new Send to OneNote tool makes it easier to include documents or Web pages in your notebooks    

Outlook

The People Card collects key details about a contact all in one place

Add your local weather forecast right there in Calendar view, along with current conditions

Receive push-based email, appointments, and contacts from Outlook.com, (formerly Hotmail) - right in your Outlook experience

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS:

Required Processor

1 gigahertz (Ghz) or faster x86- or x64-bit processor with SSE2

Required Operating System

Windows 7 or later, Windows Server 2008 R2, or Windows Server 2012

Required Memory

1 GB RAM (32 bit); 2 GB RAM (64 bit)

Required Hard Disk Space

3.0 GB available disk space

Required Display

1280 x 800 resolution

Graphics

Graphics hardware acceleration requires a DirectX 10 graphics card.

Multi-touch

A touch-enabled device is required to use any multi-touch functionality. However, all features and functionality are always available by using a keyboard, mouse or other standard or accessible input device. Note that new touch features are optimized for use with Windows 8 or later.

Additional System Requirements

Internet functionality requires an Internet connection.

Microsoft account required.