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Old Oct 17, 2012 | 2:46 pm
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jghassell
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Originally Posted by cordelli
None of the Microsoft Office Home and Student Versions come with Outlook (or Access), but that certainly does not mean you can not add them on.

Not saying you can in the tablet, but just because they choose Home and Student instead of Professional to include does not in and of itself mean it can not run it.
This is actually not true. Given the Surface RT runs on an ARM chip and not a traditional x86 chip, all apps that will run on it have to be specifically compiled for it. Microsoft has no plans to release Outlook on ARM, so as I said, there is no way to run Outlook on the ARM-based Surface RT.
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