Microsoft has just announced (okay, it was three days ago…) that
the new Office 2013 family of applications reached the RTM (Release
to Manufacturing) milestone. If you’re not familiar with the term,
this means the development and testing phases of the product are
finished.

According to Microsoft, this is their most ambitious Office
release to date since it includes not only the Office client
applications, but also the servers and cloud services, which
means:

Office 2013
SharePoint 2013
Lync 2013
Exchange 2013
Office 365
General availability is planned for the first quarter of 2013 but,
starting in mid-November, volume licensing customers, developers
and IT professionals with TechNet and MSDN subscriptions, will also
be able to download the latest bits.

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