The latest version of the Microsoft productivity suite is now available for purchase in the case of business customers, while end users will not have access to Office 2013 until the beginning of next year.

The final versions of Office 2013 have been available to program members MSDN and TechNet subscription from Microsoft since last October 24, and Microsoft also offers a few weeks a trial version 60 days of the suite, but users until now could not buy.

Microsoft said the office suite Office 2013 is now available to business users through the program Microsoft Volume Licensing Enterprise.

In addition to accessing key applications of Office 13, business users that are part of Microsoft Volume Licensing can access the servants versions of Exchange, Sharepoint and Lynx, in addition to Project 2013 and Visio 2013.

No specific date for the availability of Office 2013 for end users, and the only thing is that Microsoft has indicated will be available during the first quarter of 2013.