Microsoft rolls out Office 2013 SP1, includes fixes and features

Microsoft has released a service pack update for the latest version of Office. Service Pack 1 (SP1) promises greater stability, expanded functionality, and security enhancements for Office 2013, SharePoint 2013 and Exchange Server 2013, as well as improved compatibility with Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2.

The service pack contains all of the public and cumulative updates released since Office 2013 first became available, as well as numerous unreleased fixes and updates that reflect recent changes. SP1 improvements include:

• Compatibility fixes for Windows 8.1 and Internet Explorer 11.


• Better support for modern hardware, such as high DPI devices and the precision touchpad.


• New apps for Office capabilities and APIs for developers.


• Power Map for Excel, a 3D visualization tool for mapping, exploring, and interacting with geographical and temporal data in Excel, is now available to Office 365 ProPlus subscription customers.


• Improvements to the Click-to-Run virtualization technology that installs and updates Office 365 desktop applications.


• SkyDrive Pro is now OneDrive for Business.

Office 2013 customers will begin to get notifications of SP1 availability through Windows Update within the next 30 days, or you can download it directly below.

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Office 365 subscribers are always on the most up-to-date version of Office products so don’t need to do anything.

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