Wow, no offense, but what I'm hearing is "Office 365 finally does what Microsoft software shoulda been doing all along."
It's a bit rich to hear complaints about a change that makes Microsoft more profit on Macrumors. Isn't the crux of the Android/iPhone debate that the Android sales advantage is moot because profits! Or that the 30% cut for the Appstore is fine, because, again.. profits! So I guess the appropriateness of profitability here depends on whether Apple or some other corporation is making them?
As for value for money, Office 365 is fine if you're a multiple or frequent upgrader and user more office products. If you have to use Office, 11 isn't working for you, and there isn't a non-subscription version available for Mac, just get the PC version and use it on your Mac or PC. Consider it the Microsoft version of the iOS walled garden.
As for why you might not want/need Office... I guess you indeed might not, but there are many ways that most of the Office apps are best in class. E.G. Revision management in Word or Pivots in Excel. Office is way more customizable, and the core applications have full macro languages. The programmatic control is really important for a lot of corporations, and is just more complete in MS Office. Everything that can be programmatically exposed is.
So, yeah, you might balk at paying $100 for Office. You probably don't use the truly advanced features of Office and can get by with something less capable like Numbers or Pages... and that's okay. I'm not a particular fan of subscription services either, but another purchase option is always welcome IMO
Does it crash faster now?
I know I'll end up buying it anyway, just to avoid subscribing to those crooks.
The Office 365 subscription is a good deal unless you have only 1 computer then it's easier to just buy the standalone product.
I just hope the next Office for Mac is better than 2011. I don't have a problem with the performance of Office 2011, just the UI which is absolutely horrific. I use Office 2013 daily at work so having to use Office 2011 with all it's faults is just a nightmare.
You could be waiting a long time for next version of OFM.
The earliest we will see it will be Q1 2014.
Then give us Mac users Access for goodness sakes. Filemaker Pro is nice and all, but it's not part of a suite.
There is a bug in Powerpoint 2011 (14.2.4) with Mountain Lion (10.8.2) and transitions. The bottom part of the screen will show a previous slide during a transition (such as a fade). Make 10 slides, drop a full screen JPEG on each one, add a fade transition to all slides and run in show mode and you'll see it.
I've been wondering this and since you develop on both maybe you can answer.
Why is it that 95% of the time when an app is available for iOS and for Android that the iOS one is of higher quality? Does it have to do with the APIs? If so why makes the iOS APIs better than the android ones?
The sad reality is that most people simply don't pay for office at all. There are more illegal copies / torrents of both PC & Mac versions of office than there are legitimate / paid & registered versions.
Then use Open Office, Libre Office or Google Docs.
These figures sound plausible, but it makes me wonder how many or what prorportion of these copies of Office are used to any substantive effect. That is, a reputable business won't run pirated Office no matter what, because a typical LLC/partnership operating agreement, corporate bylaws, attorney ethics, etc, would prevent specified controlling individuals at the company from allowing pirated software to be used. I moonlight as the managing partner of two LLCs, both of which use Office extensively every day. The OA for both states that I am responsible for ensuring that company operations are in compliance with all applicable laws. If someone in either company went bootleg and we got "caught" doing it, I could lose my position, forfeit some of my interest, and/or possibly have repercussions before my professional licensing board. Suffice it to say I stamp that stuff out with alacrity. Meanwhile, I would suspect your local hole-in-the-wall dry cleaner might have a pirated copy of Office on its admin PC, but how much are they really doing with it anyway other than printing out their store hours in Word (in Comic Sans) to hang on the door? Their usage is flat-out infringement, no question, but there is no real expectation that MS would get revenue out of that user if Office couldn't be pirated. The user would just use a free alternative. Your typical home user is likely to be no better, though for a student at least there is an ongoing minimal level of usage consistent with the expectation that the company should be realizing some revenue from that.
I guess it's kind of like why Netflix doesn't care if people are ripping the DVDs they borrow. It's infringement beyond any doubt... but it just doesn't matter that someone might be copying the content in such a way.
You said it right there: on the few occasions. You don't use animation much, so you don't see how some Keynote animations and transitions work OK, some get translated into crappy PPT analogs, and some just get mangled or omitted, necessitating a whole lot of extra work. You're doing the kind of Keynotes that translate well into PPT and that's great for you but don't assume that works for everyone, and you don't need to talk down to others, yeah? Cool.
Yeah, pretty much this. Microsoft is, unlike Apple, primarily a software company. Software by its nature is less protected than hardware, and tougher to get paid for every copy. My stand is absolutely that if you're using Office as a part of making money, you should pay for it or seek a cheaper alternative if you have to. The other copies may or may not get intense use, but I really don't care so much.
Honestly, the big thing about subscriptions is adding value, and Microsoft did in a couple of ways; The skydrive 20g/skype minutes and the online-runtime version of office that files you send open with. So you no longer have to wonder if someone has a version of office that can open what you send. Its justifiable, just like a netflix or spotify subscription (although obviously would be one thing to torrent, rather than many like the other services.)
Hi Robleeco,
Have you updated to 14.3.0 ? Service pack 3... If not please do so.
http://www.microsoft.com/mac/downloads
I'm currently running 14.3.1 and can't replicate this issue at all.... I just did exactly as you said, created a slideshow with 10 slides and put a full jpg on each page and then fade transition between them and played back at full screen, all perfect. I saved as quicktime movie to prove there is no issue here.
I got excited that there was a fix. I updated to 14.3.0 but the same problem is visible at the bottom of the screen. The problem is only on Mountain Lion (10.8.2). Older versions of OS X with PPT did not have the problem. This is visible on a brand new Retina Macbook with a clean install of Office with SP3. Bummer.
I wonder if it's a retina issue ?
I was running 10.8.2 on my MacPro albeit with Powerpoint 14.3.1 and didn't have the issue.
What resolution is your 'slide' set to ?
I just ran the test again using my MBA running 10.8.2 but powerpoint only on 14.2.3 and did the same thing, a dozen slides, jpg image stretched to full slide, fade transition after 2 seconds.
Playback full screen and once more no problem what so ever.
I exported it again and uploaded it here to show
So I wonder where the discrepancy is, why it is effecting you ? The only thing I can think of is the Retina display.
Try changing resolution in system preferences so it's not set to HiDpi mode (change scale for device, and set it to maybe 1920x1200 instead and do the same test). Run the same test again and see if it happens, keep me updated (pm me if need be) as I'm a Microsoft : MVP for Macintosh so I can see if the other MVP's have ran into this issue or what solutions they can think of if isn't resolved with the change of resolution in system preferences.
Thanks
MRU.
Many people are experiencing the same problem. Problem exists independent of resolution, external monitor, hardware. The common problem is Mountain Lion and Mac PowerPoint 2011.
This Powerpoint transition problem has been discussed for a while here:
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/...ain-lion/41892328-3d27-418b-8679-8604282ac8e6
And also here:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4169934?start=0&tstart=0
How was I talking down to you? If iWork doesn't work well enough for you, pay MS lots of money and suck it up. Animations are clearly worth it for you.
you need to work on your reading comprehension, my friend. My original point was not that i wanted to use powerpoint (which absolutely and totally sucks), but rather that it was a drag to lose the iwork.com browser-based sharing of presentations. And yeah, as a professional graphic designer who is being paid to produce animated presenations, they are "worth it to me". Now, back to your cave.
How is the Mac version of Excel worse? They're the same thing.