Microsoft last year announced that there will be a successor to Office 2016, the non-subscription version of the application suite, and that the upgrade would ship in about a year. The bundle, named 'Office 2019,' will be geared to customers, primarily corporate customers, 'who aren't yet ready for the cloud,' according to Microsoft. Related: But other than that description, Microsoft has been vague about the prospect of Office 2019 with a 'perpetual' license, one that lets the customer run the suite as long as desired without further payments. So, we collected some of the pressing questions business may have about the suite.
What is a 'perpetual' Office? Microsoft categorizes software by how it is paid for, discriminating between a license that was bought outright from one that is essentially 'rented' because it's paid for over time, like a subscription. Most of the time Microsoft uses the term 'one-time purchase' to label a software license that is paid for with a 'single, up-front cost to get Office applications for one computer.' The purchase gives the buyer the right to use Office in perpetuity. In other words, the license has no expiration date, and users may run the suite as long as they want.
Related: When will Microsoft release Office 2019? The company pegged the launch of the suite during the second half of the year. 'This release, scheduled for the second half of 2018, will include perpetual versions of the Office apps. And servers,' wrote Jared Spataro, general manager for Office, in a September post to a. Spataro called out 'Office 2019' at the time as the nameplate for the application collection.
When will Microsoft release Office 2019? No date yet, but there are hints enough to take a guess. In late September 2015, Microsoft offered the Windows edition of Office 2016 to Office 365 customers first, then followed with retail versions. Office 2019 will likely appear around the same time of the year, in that same order. Microsoft now issues two Office 365 ProPlus feature upgrades — ProPlus is the standard suite that provides rights to the locally installed applications, including Excel, Outlook and Word, for 365 subscribers — annually.
Those feature upgrades begin reaching customers in September and March of each year. 12, Microsoft issued a feature upgrade, designated 1708, to Office 365 ProPlus.) To comment on this story, visit.
Because the perpetual licensed version of Office 2019 will be built from code already released as Office 365 ProPlus — and because a beta of Office 2019 will debut in mid-2018 — it's more likely that Microsoft will use the March feature upgrade for Office 365 ProPlus subscribers than the September 2018 feature upgrade as the basis for Office 2019. The three months between the March 2018 appearance of the ProPlus feature upgrade and the July 2018 launch of the Office 2019 preview will give Microsoft time to digest feedback from customers and fix any bugs that surface. The change from Office 2016's beta release date (May 2015) to Office 2019's (mid-summer 2018) was probably necessary to accommodate the March feature upgrade timetable; Microsoft didn't until after the launch of Office 2016 in September 2015.
All Microsoft has to do to declare the applications delivered to ProPlus subscribers — Word, Outlook, and so on — as officially 'Office 2019' versions is to rename them. It could do that on Sept. 11, 2018, the likely date it will release that year's second ProPlus feature upgrade.
What will be in Office 2019? Microsoft's not saying. The feature set may not be revealed until mid-2018, when Microsoft releases a preview of the suite. For his part, Spataro hinted at some of what will make it into Office 2019, calling out such features as Ink replay in Word and Morph in PowerPoint, which have been available to Office 365 subscribers for one and two years, respectively. And that's important to remember. There's little to no chance that Office 2019 will include any groundbreaking new features.
Because the perpetually-licensed version of the suite is built by taking the accumulated changes since the predecessor appeared — the changes issued to Office 365 subscribers over the past several years. Microsoft will take the version of Office 2016 that Office 365 ProPlus users have in, say, the spring of 2018 — and that version of Office 2016 is different than the 2015 version of Office 2016 sold as a one-time purchase — freeze the code, and call it Office 2019. In which forms and formats will Microsoft sell Office 2019? Microsoft's not saying. One-time purchases of the current office range from Office Professional Plus 2016 (Windows) and Office Standard 2016 for Mac (macOS), the enterprise-grade SKUs available only via volume licensing, to retail packages such as Office Professional 2016 (Windows) and Office Home and Business 2016 for Mac (macOS).
It's certain that Microsoft will offer Office 2019 to commercial customers via volume licensing, but it may be questionable to assume that it will sell single-copy versions at retail. Microsoft will, at some point, discontinue sales of Office perpetual licenses, analysts have agreed. (Microsoft has made no secret that it prefers subscriptions – Office 365 in this case – for the recurring revenue they generate.) Dumping single-copy one-time purchases would be the logical place to start reducing the perpetual option. Spataro did not say so, but Office 2019 will come in versions for both Windows and macOS. There would be little reason to cull the latter, for instance, since Microsoft dominates that OS's productivity space, too. Why is it important that Microsoft ship Office 2019 this year? Another great question.
In 2017, Microsoft slashed the rights of users running non-subscription Office when it announced that perpetual-licensed versions of Office 2016 will be barred from connecting to Microsoft's cloud-based services, including hosted email (Exchange) and online storage (OneDrive for Business) after Oct. Under the new rules, owners of a perpetual license for Office 2016 can use those services only during the first half of their 10-year support lifecycle, the portion Microsoft dubs 'mainstream.' By releasing Office 2019 this year, Microsoft will give enterprises a year or so to migrate from Office 2016 (or an earlier edition) before the cloud service cutoff. Will Microsoft sell a one-time purchase version of Office after Office 2019? We don't think so.
Simple: Microsoft is slashing support for Office 2019 by 30%. Rather than the usual decade of support – the first five in what Microsoft dubs 'Mainstream,' the second five as 'Extended,' which provides security-only updates – Office 2019 will get only seven years.
'Office 2019 will provide 5 years of mainstream support and approximately 2 years of extended support,' said Spataro in the Feb. To align with the support period for Office 2016. Extended support will end.' That's the same day Office 2016's support expires. The simultaneous retirement of the two perpetually-licensed suites is the strongest signal yet that Microsoft plans to shut down the one-time purchase option after Office 2019. By shortening 2019's support lifespan – something Microsoft has never done to Office for Windows – it will be able to wash its hands of both suites at the same time, ending the decades-old purchasing option and making the subscription-based Office 365 the only way to license the applications. The late-2025 deadline will let Microsoft sell Office 2019 for years – during the Mainstream stretch, most likely – while hedging about a successor throughout.
But it can still give enterprise customers a multi-year heads-up that it's the last of its kind (and that those customers need to move to subscriptions). Is it true that Office 2019 won't work on Windows 7? Or even Windows 8.1? Yes, that's true. Or maybe, no, it's not. Along with its announcement that Office 2019's support will run out after seven years, Microsoft also painted the system requirements with a broad brush.
The requirements are substantially more restrictive than Office 2016's. According to Spataro's Feb. 1 post, Office 2019 will be supported only on Windows 10. No love for Windows 7 (which retires in January 2020, or a year-and-change after Office 2019's debut) or Windows 8.1 (January 2023, four years and more). Those two older OSes will have to be satisfied with Office 2016 (which, again, doesn't fall off support until October 2025). Spataro did not offer an explanation for the support limitation. Previously, like when Microsoft said that Office 2016 could not be used to connect to the company's own cloud services after Oct.
13, 2020, it's rationalized the decision by claiming that tying new (Office 2019 in this case) technologies to old (Windows 7 or Windows 8.1) resulted in substandard security and unimpressive features. From Microsoft's perspective, the same reasoning could be applied to this ruling. The cynical among us would instead see it as another push to move everyone onto Windows 10 ASAP by limiting the functionality of prior editions of Windows. But although Microsoft was crystal clear that it would not support Office 2019 on Windows 7 or 8.1, there's no guarantee that the suite won't necessarily run on devices powered by those operating systems. For all we know, Office 2019 may work, perhaps not perfectly, on the older OSes. Even if that were the case, however, Microsoft can easily bar Office security updates from reaching Windows 7 or 8.1 PCs.
Historically, it has done exactly that, such as when it blocked Windows 7 systems from receiving Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) security updates after January 2016. Okay, so we'll just move our Windows 8.1 systems to Office 365 to get an upgraded Office. When Microsoft means it won't support Office 2019, it really means it. Along with the no-Office-2019-support-on-Windows-8.1 rule,.
'Effective January 14, 2020, ProPlus will no longer be supported on. Windows 8.1 and older,' said Microsoft's Spataro. 'This will ensure that both Office and Windows receive regular, coordinated updates to provide the most secure environment with the latest capabilities.' In other words, three years before Windows 8.1's official retirement date, Microsoft will limit Windows 8.1 to running the perpetual versions of Office 2016 or Office 2013. (The latter's support runs out in April 2023, three months after Windows 8.1's expires.) Blocking updates to Office 365 ProPlus on Windows 8.1 likely didn't make Microsoft blink; the operating system accounts for such a small slice of the overall Windows pie.
In January, analytics vendor Net Applications pegged Windows 8's and 8.1's combined user share as about 7.6% of all Windows editions. And by the time January 2020 rolls around, Windows 8/8.1 should be under 5%, if the decline trend remains close to that of the last 12 months.
Today, we are announcing the general availability of Office 2019 for Windows and Mac. Is the next on-premises version of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Project, Visio, Access, and Publisher. Office 365 ProPlus, the cloud-connected version of Office, delivers the most productive and most secure —with the lowest total cost of ownership for deployment and management. However, for customers who aren’t ready for the cloud, Office 2019 provides new features and updates to the on-premises apps for both users and IT professionals. Like Windows Long Term Servicing Channel (LTSC) releases, Office 2019 provides a set of valuable enhancements for customers who can’t be cloud-connected or receive regular updates. The new enhancements in Office 2019 are a subset of a long list of features that have been added to Office 365 ProPlus over the last three years.
Office 2019 is a one-time release and won’t receive future feature updates. However, we’ll continue to add new features to Office 365 ProPlus monthly, including innovations in collaboration, artificial intelligence (AI), security, and more. Office 2019 delivers features across apps to help users create amazing content in less time. In PowerPoint 2019, you can create cinematic presentations with new features like Morph and Zoom. And improved inking features across the apps in Windows—like the roaming pencil case, pressure sensitivity, and tilt effects—allow you to naturally create documents. Excel 2019 adds powerful new data analysis features, including new formulas and charts and enhancements to PowerPivot. Word 2019 and Outlook 2019 help you focus on what matters most.
Learning Tools, like Read Aloud and Text Spacing, make it easier to engage with your content. Focus Mode blocks out distractions and puts your content front and center. And Focused Inbox moves less important emails out of the way—so you can get straight to taking care of business. For a longer list of the new features in Office 2019, see our. Office 2019 also includes new IT value for enhanced security and streamlined administration. We introduced Click-to-Run (C2R), a modern deployment technology, in Office 2013, and it’s now used to deploy and update Office across hundreds of millions of devices worldwide. With Office 2019, we’re moving the on-premises versions of Office to C2R to reduce costs and improve security.
The advantages of C2R include predictable monthly security updates, up-to-date apps on installation, reduced network consumption through Windows 10 download optimization technology, and an easy upgrade path to Office 365 ProPlus. C2R offers the same enterprise-focused management capabilities as Microsoft Installer (MSI) based products and will also support an in-place upgrade when you move to Office 2019 from older MSI-based products. To learn more, refer to the. The 2019 release of Office products also includes updates to our servers, and in the coming weeks, we will release Exchange Server 2019, Skype for Business Server 2019, SharePoint Server 2019, and Project Server 2019. Office 2019 is a valuable update for customers who aren’t yet ready for the cloud. And each time we release a new on-premises version of Office, customers ask us if this will be our last. We’re pleased to confirm that we’re committed to another on-premises release in the future. While the cloud offers real benefits in productivity, security, and total cost of ownership, we recognize that each customer is at a different point in their adoption of cloud services.
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I've searched a lot for this and not found a clear answer. Basically I'd like to purchase Microsoft Office. My wife just bought a Macbook Pro, and I only have an old 2003 version on my PC + laptop. Ideally I'd like to purchase Mac Office 2011 for my wife, with a license to use it on both my PC and laptop as Office 2010 AND with the option to upgrade to 2013 on my laptop & PC when it's released.
Also, as an option, my wife is a teacher so is there an Academic price available discount somewhere? Is what I want possible?
I am pretty desperate, my wife needs to use Mac Office today and so I am under some heavy spousal pressure;) Thanks guys! Hi, Office for Windows, and Office for Mac, are separate products, and they are not bundled together. There are some academic/educational offers available, there is Office 2010 University (for Windows), and some institutions have student/staff offers available. I think the academic/educational offerings require some kind of verification, and that may not be possible in the timeframe you've been set:( these links should help (USA info/pricing): H&S 2010 $149.99 (up to 3 pc's, transferable, non-commercial use) $99.95 (PKC, single machine, not transferable) Office University requires verification of student status buy Office2010 now, get a free upgrade to Office2013 when it's released: Office for Mac NB: products purchased under PKC terms are usually not transferable from one computer to another computer. Products purchased under FPP terms are usually transferable from one computer to another computer. (notwithstanding that Windows software can't run on Mac, and vice-versa). Also note that H&S, or academic/university, are for non-commercial use.
Don (Please take a moment to 'Vote as Helpful' and/or 'Mark as Answer', where applicable. This helps the community, keeps the forums tidy, and recognises useful contributions. MS is no longer selling Office 2010 to consumers. It is only selling Office 2013. BUT, the new Office 365 (2013) Home Premium license sounds like what you are looking for.
It allows you to install on up to 5 computers at the same time and to easily transfer those installations to new computers as needed. It gives you Office 2013 on PCs and the same license allows you to install Office 2008 on Mac computers as part of the 5 allowed installations. The Mac version will be upgraded 'for free' and automatically when the new Mac version is released.
It currently costs US$100 per year. There is a 'University' discount bundle but it is only for Post Secondary Students. She would have to talk to her IT person to see if the school/school board has a license that gives her access to the HUP (Home Use Program). The HUP is part of the Office SA (Software Assurance) feature of site/volume licenses Software Assurance Benefits There are over a dozen SA benefits and the amount of benefits your organization has depends on the licensing agreement. The list below highlights the most popular benefits associated with Office. when they are released within the time of your agreement.
where you get onsite consulting services to create a deployment plan when you are getting ready to deploy new software. This service is available for desktop products (Office & Windows), SharePoint, Exchange and OCS.
You can also use Business Planning services to help you get more efficiency out of your software solution. for technical, classroom training to help you keep your IT staff up to date. is online training to get your users trained on new software to prepare for a new software implementation, or to help them be more productive on current software. (HUP) provides a license of Office, at a minimal cost, to employees for their home computers allowing them to become more proficient with the software they use at work, when they are using it at home. Microsoft takes the support calls for the home use licenses so it can also help reduce the support calls going to your IT staff.
to help you keep your IT infrastructure up and running. for Software Assurance subscription to provide a community of information for all of your IT issues and questions., which enables you to deploy a single image of Office with support for 37 languages. For a complete list of SA benefits. If she has been assigned an Office 365 license at school (yes, I know the chance of that is about zero, but.) then she can use one of her 5 allowed installations at home.
2012 12 06- Everything you need to know about Office 2013 Office 2013 on sale - Is it Worth Getting? What’s the difference between Office 365 and Office 2013 local install? The 'base' applications are the same. Office 365 is the next attempt of MS to MAKE MORE MONEY!
Or at least to create a steady flow of 'rental' income rather than the bursts of new version 'purchase' income (of course if you read the terms of the license we are not actually 'purchasing' our local copies of Office, we are just licensing it and MS can revoke that license any time they feel like it). Yes, depending on the Office 365 package you get, the monthly rent will sooner or later end up costing more than a purchase. But, if you look at the packages you'll see that they include more features than the 'base' local install includes. Things like 'free' (well part of the 365 bundle) Skydrive storage. But also things like SharePoint functionality without having to set up your own server installation. Server, Office-on-Demand: This option provides a single Office application on demand to users when they need it.
The Office application is streamed to the PC but is not permanently installed. Office 365 Home Premium allows you to 'install' on up to 5 home computers.
And a bunch of other 'stuff'. Another advantage of the Office 365 bundle is that you won't have to buy 'Office 16', it will appear 'automatically' as part of your 'rental' deal.
Microsoft Reality: Understanding Touch - Microsoft Office 2013 and Office 365: A Deeper Dive (slide show) So the question becomes, how safe do you feel running your business in the 'cloud', and storing your personal, confidential, proprietary data files in MS 'cloud' storage. The paranoid 'security freaks' out there will ask uncomfortable questions like:. Do you trust MS not to 'peek'?. Do you trust your or foreign governments to not 'subpoena' your data (maybe without even bothering to tell you a la 'patriot act' and it's various lovely cousins). Do you trust MS not to 'leak', or be hacked?
MANY other big companies have, what makes MS invulnerable?. Are you positive that the connection between your computer and the 'cloud' is unhackable? And other similar 'nasty' questions that MS doesn't want you to think about. 2012 07 24- Can Office 365 convince you that renting software is a good deal? Microsoft execs aren't yet ready to talk Office 15 packaging or pricing specifics. In fact, there are lots of specifics about all the different components of the next Office release that won't be disclosed in full today at the San Francisco Office 15 unveiling. Little will be shared on July 16 about the new Office Marketplace, for example, officials told me, though they will be discussing the and now known officially as Microsoft officials are planning to provide more deep-dive details on all the apps and services through August and into the fall, Kapner said.
Microsoft also won't be talking delivery dates today. But my sources - who were right about the public beta of Office 15 hitting in July - have said Microsoft's goal remains to release to manufacturing the final Office 15 client, servers and services before the end of calendar 2012, possibly around November.
On the usefulness front, you can now import a PDF directly into Word, edit it as a Word doc, and then save it as either a Word doc or a PDF. Not only do imported files retain all of the original documents' formatting-including headers, columns, and footnotes-but elements such as tables and graphics can be edited in Word as such. When you're collaborating with other people on a document, being able to track the changes that each person makes is critical.
This becomes much easier to do in Word 2013, thanks to a new feature called simple markup view. Normally when I fire up Word, it just opens a blank document, but Word 2013 it takes you to a landing page. The page is similar to what you'd see in Word 2010 if you start a new document from a template: In a pane on the right, it hosts various thumbnail images illustrating the different templates; and in a smaller pane on the left, it lets you select from recent Word documents or open other existing files. Microsoft is pushing users strongly to work with the cloud.
Win8 encourages users to log in with a Microsoft ID, as opposed to a local Windows account; the ID connects you to your, and enables your Microsoft programs to sync settings and information. In Word 2013, you can choose to save files locally-or wherever you want-but SkyDrive is the default storage location. The Status Bar at the bottom of each Office app has been restyled to match the general Metro look of the suite. Not bad, but as is often the case with Microsoft products, some familiar elements have been arbitrarily yanked. The shortcut to Draft mode in Word, for instance, isn't there anymore. This was annoying for me since I use Draft mode constantly with most documents. When you switch to the File tab and elect to open a document, you're given not only a list of recently opened documents but a list of locations (folders, network paths) where documents were recently opened.
For someone like me, who's constantly squirrelling around in the same directories for different files, this is a godsend. The new Design tab is where all the document-theming controls live now.
These used to be jammed into a subset of the Page Layout tab and were consequently hard to find. One widely touted feature in Word 2013 is the ability to open and edit PDFs - which amounts to Word having a native filter that converts PDFs to Word documents. It's useful, but limited: The simpler the PDF, the more likely it is to survive the conversion with its formatting intact.
I fed Word a few book-length PDFs just to see what would happen. They were mostly preserved, but certain kinds of formatting elements - the positions of page breaks, the lengths of lines with tabs, and headers and footers - were regularly mangled.
In the run-up to Office 2013's preview release, speculation flew fast and far about how much the new Office would be beholden to Win8. Most widely argued was whether or not the suite would be Metro-centric, or at least have certain elements deployed on top of Metro. Microsoft decided not to go that route, and the reasons seem twofold. One, all signs hint that Win8 is not going to displace the existing market for Win7; instead, the two OSes will sell side by side (shades of Windows XP and Windows Vista).
This means making any significant amount of Office functionality Metro-only would be a mistake. Two, Metro is an environment designed for what others have called 'lean-back mode.' It's a consumption environment, not a production one. Instead, Microsoft has given Office 2013 a Metro-style makeover without making it an actual Metro app. The word 'Metro' doesn't even appear in the reviewer's guide handed out for testers of the beta. Microsoft also added a few key touch-centric features - again, just enough to make Office useful on a touch system without forcing people to rely on it. Office 2013 Public Preview: Office On Demand.
You can trigger a web-based install of Office 2013 and start using any one of the applications in under two minutes? It sounds incredible, I know. But it’s true. The key to this engineering feat is a new feature called Office On Demand. It’s really an improved version of the Click-To-Run technologies Microsoft employed in Office 2010, and like Click-To-Run, it uses Microsoft virtualization, “computer within a computer”, technologies and Internet streaming to blast Office onto your PC at speeds that will leave your head spinning. Lord of the rings 2005 game download full version for mac pc.
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The key thing to remember is that the 2013 license is associated with 1, presumabley yours, email address. You may use the license to install on up to 5 devices at the same time, including both PC’s and Macs.
The Macs still get Office 2011 for Mac, until it is eventually upgraded. Once you install Office 365 on a computer using your email address, you may share the installation with other Windows user ids created on that computer. That first email address is considered the “administrator” of the license.
It can “uninstall” the license from a given computer if you want to transfer the allowed installation to another computer. Video: Activate / Deactivate your Office 365 installs Install Office on more than one computer Video: Adding family members to your Office 365 2013 5 installations.
It’s slowly approaching five years since Microsoft first released Office for Mac 2011 in October 2010. While a final version of Office 2016 for Mac isn’t ready just yet, Microsoft is for Mac users to get an early look at the company’s work. Microsoft has been doing some great work with Office, bringing it to the iPad, extending it to Dropbox, and even acquiring impressive apps like Acompli to power Office on iOS and Android. Office 2016 for Mac is the latest result of Microsoft’s focus on cross-platform apps, and it finally matches its Windows equivalent. The first thing I noticed about using Office 2016 for Mac is the user interface.
While the existing 2011 version looks old in comparison, Microsoft hasn’t ditched parts of the aging UI entirely. It looks and feels like a mix of the fresh Windows design and Office for Mac 2011. 'We think we’ve done a good job of striking a balance that customers expect,' explains Eric Wilfred, the head of Microsoft’s Office for Mac apps, in an interview with The Verge.
'Our internal tagline, and we’re actually corny enough to say this in the hallways, is 'Unmistakably Office and optimized for the Mac.' ' The result is the familiar Ribbon user interface that fits in with the OS X theme and features like sandboxed apps, fullscreen view, and Retina screen optimization. OneDrive cloud storage is built straight in Like Office 2013 for Windows, Microsoft is integrating its cloud storage services directly into Office 2016 for Mac. That means Office 365, OneDrive, OneDrive for Business, and Sharepoint are all integrated. If you use OneDrive to store and edit Office documents with an iPad or a Windows laptop, then you can quickly access them from the recent documents location in Office 2016 for Mac.
Microsoft’s cross-platform app strategy, powered by the cloud, is a reality, and this is the latest piece of the puzzle. Word 2016 for Mac looks a lot like the iOS and Windows equivalents, and Microsoft is supporting co-authoring to allow several people to simultaneously edit a document. Alongside co-authoring, there’s also new threaded comments to track comments more easily next to the relevant text.
Microsoft is also adding a new navigation pane to quickly flick between pages in Word documents, better dictionary support, and a style pane to apply styles to an entire document. Adobe after effects for mac. The vast majority of Word features are what you’d expect from the existing Office for Mac, but everything feels a little more polished thanks to the new look and feel. Excel now has the same Windows keyboard shortcuts Excel has some more significant changes. If you’re a Windows user that switches between Mac and PC, then you’ll be pleased to learn that the Excel keyboard shortcuts are now consistent between Mac and PC versions of Office.
That means you can use ctrl + shift shortcuts instead of cmd + shift. As someone who regularly switches between a Mac and Windows PCs, I’m very thankful for this change. Of course, you can still use the cmd shortcuts if you’re used to them. Microsoft is also adding slicers to re-pivot data, printing to PDF, a full formula builder, and autocomplete improvements. PowerPoint picks up an improved presenter view, new slide transitions, and an overview of all animations in a slide deck.
The new presenter view allows you to see notes alongside slides, and the additional slide transitions give you more ways to keep your audience awake with crazy animations. There’s not a huge amount of change to PowerPoint, but like the rest, it more closely matches the Windows version. Office 2016 for Mac will also include Outlook and OneNote, both of which have been available on Mac for some months now. While Outlook for iOS is amazing, the Mac equivalent falls short for several reasons. There’s no account picker, which results in a confusing and frustrating way to add your account at first, and it’s surprising that Microsoft hasn’t even optimized the app for its own Outlook.com service. Otherwise, it’s a good combination of email, calendars, and contact management for those who are familiar with Outlook and rely on Exchange day to day. Overall, during my testing I noticed that Office 2016 for Mac doesn’t seem that much faster than Office for Mac 2011.
I’ve grown tired of using Office for Mac 2011 as it’s simply not fast enough and reliable enough for my needs, and I’m disappointed there haven’t been many performance improvements nearly five years later. I was hoping for a lightweight version of Office for Mac, but there’s hope yet. 'We have focused a lot on performance in the run up to getting preview out, and we believe we’ve got it to the point where it’s worth getting feedback,' explains Wilfred.
'We know that we’re not done, we have more performance work to do before general availability.' Final version available this summer Speaking of availability, Microsoft is aiming to have this ready in time for summer, with a release focused on Office 365 customers once the bits are ready.
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Microsoft is also planning to sell the suite of apps standalone, but the company is not yet announcing pricing or exact availability dates. If you’re interested in testing out Office 2016 for Mac then you can download a copy over at.
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