Download Microsoft Office 2013

Microsoft Office 2013 is out with new looks and features. This latest release of Microsoft Office features a flat and square design and integrates the free SkyDrive cloud storage service from Microsoft. Office 2013 is a trialware, meaning that you can try it for 30 days until you purchase a license key from Microsoft. Please be aware that Microsoft Office 2013 only supports Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 2008 R2 and any later versions of Windows, so it won't run on Windows XP or Windows Vista.

If you want to download, install and try Microsoft Office 2013, there are downloadable ISO copies of Corporate Volume License editions of Microsoft Office 2013 available on bittorrent peer-to-peer file-sharing network. You can use any bittorrent application, but aria2 or transmission is recommended. In the following examples, transmission-cli can be used instead of aria2c.

• Microsoft Office Professional Plus 32bit 64bit 2013
• Microsoft Visio Professional 2013 RTM X86 Volume English DVD MSVLSC
• Microsoft Visio Professional 2013 RTM X64 Volume English DVD MSVLSC
• Microsoft Project Professional 2013 RTM X86 Volume English DVD MSVLSC
• Microsoft Project Professional 2013 RTM X64 Volume English DVD MSVLSC

To download English Volume License edition of Office Professional Plus 2013, type the following command on Command Prompt. This torrent contains both 32-bit and 64-bit editions of Microsoft Office 2013.

aria2c "magnet:?xt=urn:btih:N4CRYICBV3R2JO5CKFNWCVJ76FXKJLFB"

To download X86 Volume English edition of Microsoft Visio Professional 2013, type the following command on Command Prompt. A torrent is also available here.

aria2c "magnet:?xt=urn:btih:BVEARE7CO2PTBJXLBWVOHWAPVWQBENQ2"

To download X64 Volume English edition of Microsoft Visio Professional 2013, type the following command on Command Prompt. A torrent is also available here.

aria2c "magnet:?xt=urn:btih:Q37EIBGSJOBBNJG2E2AHOZQHWCC4D5IK"

To download X86 Volume English edition of Microsoft Project Professional 2013, type the following command on Command Prompt. A torrent is also available here.

aria2c "magnet:?xt=urn:btih:LKWVAEFXJNGNYA37ZV6YBAKC3AXNM45U"

To download X64 Volume English edition of Microsoft Project Professional 2013, type the following command on Command Prompt. A torrent is also available here.

aria2c "magnet:?xt=urn:btih:LRYKC5N22ILNC6Y6U7DTLECDGC3VOTMU"

When you use aria2 or transmission, please be patient with the program as it takes time to find the peers. Once you download the ISO, burn the ISO using a free ISO-burning tool, such as CDBurnerXP or ImgBurn. No product key or serial number is necessary when you install any of the above Volume License editions of Microsoft Office, Visio or Project Professional 2013. However, you may use the product for 30 days without restriction. After that, you need to activate the product to continue using it. Read this post to find out how to activate Microsoft Office 2013.

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• Transmission-daemon for Windows
• Using Transmission-CLI to download stuff from the Internet
• To activate Microsoft Office 2013

To Activate Office 2013

Office 2013, also known as Office 15, is the latest release of the flagship office productivity suite from Microsoft. If you installed Office 2013 using a corporate volume license edition DVD and want to activate your copy of the product, you have to use an activation method that may include setting up a KMS server and connecting to the KMS server. However, if installing a KMS server on a separate Windows machine is not a feasible option, there are PC virtualization methods in which you run a KMS server inside a virtual machine (perhaps using QEMU.) There are many packages available on the Internet that help you automate this process.

One such package is KMS nano, and can be downloaded using a bittorrent application, such as aria2 or transmission-cli. The latest version of KMS nano comes in the .zip file called LaNano11.2.zip. Its torrent is available here.

Once you downloaded LaNano11.2.zip, extract and run KMSnano.exe. Remember to disable any antivirus program first. The program will silently start up a QEMU virtual machine with the IP address 127.0.0.3 and run a KMS server inside the virtual machine. It will also try to activate Windows 7, Windows 8, Office 2010 or Office 2012 if any of them is installed on the host computer. In most cases, the program will successfully activate your copy of Windows or Office and quit silently. If you want to monitor KMSnano or check whether it finished or not, press Ctl+Alt+Del at the same time and then open the Task Manager. You'll see a process called qemu-system-i386 running on a huge memory if KMSnano is still running. On a system with a limited amount of memory (less than 1.5 GB), KMSnano may take a long time or even fail.

If KMSnano fails for some reason, you need to take extra steps and do some manual hacking. Use 7-zip to extract the contents of KMSnano into an empty folder, for example, KMSNANO. Then, open a Command Prompt with the Administrator privilege, go to the KMSNANO folder, and type Manual.cmd. KMSELDI will pop up showing the IP address to use (127.0.0.3) and show you a black window in which you see Windows starting. While the virtual machine is running, open another Command Prompt with the administrator privilege. Type the following commands to activate your product.

cscript ospp.vbs /inpkey:xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx
cscript ospp.vbs /sethst:127.0.0.3
cscript ospp.vbs /act

The ospp.vbs script for Office 2013 can be typically located in C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office15. The keys to type with the inpkey option can be found on this page. Once activation succeeds, the QEMU virtual machine will quit by itself. To check whether your copy of Windows or Office has been activated, you can run the Check_Activation.cmd script inside the KMSNANO folder.

Also Read

• Download Microsoft Office 2013
• Microsoft Technet: Use tools to configure client computers in Office 2013
• Microsoft Technet: Volume activation methods in Office 2013
• Activate Windows 7, Windows 8, Office 2010 and Office 2013 with KMS Nano

OpenOffice.org on Portable USB drive

My favorite Office suite is OpenOffice.org which is free and fully functional alternative to Microsoft Office 2007. If you haven't tried it yet, I highly recommend OpenOffice.org to you.

However, OpenOffice.org is not widely available on computers in offices, cafe, schools and airports. In case you want to use OpenOffice.org on public computers without OpenOffice.org installed, you can install OpenOffice.org onto your USB flash drive beforehand, carry it with you wherever you go, and run OpenOffice.org from the USB thumbdrive. OpenOffice.org can be installed on USB thumbdrives of minimum 512 MB space. There are 2 portable releases of OpenOffice.org:

• U3 release of OpenOffice.org
  
  This version is outdated 2.2.0.0 and cannot be run on non-English versions of Windows.
  
• PortableApps.com release of OpenOffice.org
  
  This version is the latest 3.0.1 and can be run on all versions of Windows and also on Linux. Thus, I recommend PortableApps.com release.