
Improves compatibility with modern hardware, such as high-DPI devices and the precision touchpad. Improves compatibility with Internet Explorer 11. Improves compatibility with Windows 8.1. The following are the key areas of improvement that are offered by this SP1: A pie chart clock icon appears in the "Conversations" tab as a meeting icon in Lync 2013 Can't rotate the screen orientation of a video window in a Lync 2013 video conference on a Windows 8.1-based device The "Program Events" sound setting is reset to the default value after you restart Lync 2013 Can't hear the first few words that a callee speaks when they answer a call in Lync 2013 Microsoft Office applications may be obtained individually this includes Microsoft Visio, Microsoft Project and Microsoft SharePoint Designer which are not included in any of the twelve editions.This service package fixes the issues that are described in the following Microsoft Knowledge Base (KB) articles: Office Web Apps are available free of charge on the web although enterprises may obtain on-premises installations for a price. Microsoft Office 2013 comes in twelve different editions, including three editions for retail outlets, two editions for volume licensing channel, five subscription-based editions available through Microsoft Office 365 program, the web application edition known as Office Web Apps and the Office RT edition made for tablets and mobile devices.

This version includes new features such as integration support for online services (including OneDrive,, Skype, Yammer and Flickr), improved format support for Office Open XML (OOXML), OpenDocument (ODF) and Portable Document Format (PDF) and support for multi-touch interfaces.

Microsoft released Office 2013 to general availability on January 29, 2013. Development on this version of Microsoft Office was started in 2010 and ended on October 11, 2012, when Microsoft Office 2013 was released to manufacturing.
