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Microsoft has announced that Office 2013 will be getting its first Service Pack early next year and would bring performance and feature updates along with better Windows 8.1 support for the suite.

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Microsoft has announced on the Office blog that the Office 2013 productivity suite will be getting its first Service Pack early next year.

Chris Schneider, Senior Marketing Manager at Microsoft, has written that the service pack will bring performance enhancements, feature updates and improved compatibility with Windows 8.1 to the Office 2013 productivity suite which includes Office, Sharepoint and Exchange. He also mentions that Office 365 users are updated regularly, hinting that they don't need to do anything different in order to acquire SP1.

Office 2013 was released last year and has been rumored to get a set of annual updates known by the codename "Gemini," similar to Windows' "Blue" updates. Microsoft had briefly demoed the Modern UI Office apps at BUILD 2013 which were at pre-alpha stage of development at that time.

It is not clear from today's announcement whether the service pack is a part of the "Gemini" updates and whether the Modern Office apps will be released in a revamped version of Office. But, as Chris mentions on the blog, Microsoft will brief customers when they have more details to share about the upcoming update.

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Let's all pray that SP1 for Office 2013 restores the Office Themes from Office 2010 to give us a choice beyond White, Light Gray and Dark Gray (which isn't dark at all). A little color wouldn't hurt, either.

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LOL, well, technically, you are correct. I guess if you taped a prism to your display while Office is running, you might be able to extract a 'color' theme. There is some effort under way to modify the MS Office code to create different themes:

http://officethemehacker.wordpress.com/2013/04/26/office-2013-dark-theme/ 
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Let's all pray that SP1 for Office 2013 restores the Office Themes from Office 2010 to give us a choice beyond White, Light Gray and Dark Gray (which isn't dark at all). A little color wouldn't hurt, either.

^^^

LOL, well, technically, you are correct. I guess if you taped a prism to your display while Office is running, you might be able to extract a 'color' theme. There is some effort under way to modify the MS Office code to create different themes:

http://officethemehacker.wordpress.com/2013/04/26/office-2013-dark-theme/ 

I would love to get that Blue theme back.

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Microsoft shared a partial list of some of the updates that will be part of the SP1 via blog posts on the Office and Exchange Team blogs. On that list:


Improved compatibility with Windows 8.1


Support for Windows Server 2012 R2 for Exchange and SharePoint


Support for S/MIME in OWA will be brought back in SP1. With SP1 customers will have S/MIME support across Outlook, Exchange ActiveSync clients, and OWA


Inclusion of the Edge Transport server role for Exchange Server 2013


General performance enhancements and feature updates for all the Office 2013 products


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