You won’t be using Office on Demand at the library, in other words. It also requires the PC to have a fairly modern browser: Internet Explorer 9 or later, Mozilla Firefox 12 or later, Apple Safari 5 or later, or Google Chrome 18 or later. As with local installations of Office 2013, Office on Demand plays nice only with PCs running Windows 7 or 8. One of the big draws of an Office 365 subscription is Office on Demand, a full-fledged, Internet-streamed version of the productivity suite that Microsoft calls “Your Office away from home.” And it really, truly is- if the host computer meets the suite’s fairly stringent requirements. Office Web Apps offer basic functionality, but nowhere near as much utility as Office on Demand. Other computers may not run Office on Demand.
And because an Office 365 Home Premium subscription simply lets you install the latest version of Office-Office 2013, again-on up to five PCs, you’ll want to pass on that as well.Ģ. If you’re part of that sizable horde, there’s absolutely no reason to buy Office 2013-it won’t work on your system. Yet the latest data from NetApplications shows that roughly 45 percent of all Internet users still rock those two aging operating systems. Unlike Office 2010, Office 2013 does not work with Windows XP or Windows Vista.