First Screenshots of Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 Surface

[Jason Beck]

+1 agreed.

Best Office versions of all time: 2007 (Win), 97 (Win), granddaddy Mac version (Word 5 and earlier).

I totally agree! I have 08 and my wife has 08. I am on a macbook and she is on a win7 compaq 610. Our school gave us our computers and software. I put an aftermarket gen 2 intel 80gb drive in and use that for boot.

Sooo.. when she got her computer last week I was like, "Does it run faster?" ahahha she said no.. but it looked completely different. Lame. So she gets used to my version and has to relearn where everything is for hers!

 

[Jaro65]

I guess having ribbons in MS office will force people to move to Open Office or iWork. =)

Nope. We already have them in the "other" Office and they work.

I sure hope that this version will be more compatible with MS Office 2007/2010. And hopefully Excel will also be much closer in feature-functionality to that "other" version.

 

[HLdan]

I am SO bummed that they aren't giving OneNote a shot on Mac. There is no great alternative to it. Tons of students use OneNote, and tons of students use Macs. So why not combine them? I'm not even a student anymore but I use OneNote (via Crossover) for business use. I love it, but would love it even more if I didn't have to run Crossover to use it! Come on Microsoft GIVE US ONENOTE!!!

I agree with you about the One Note thing in terms of MS including it with Mac Office but to say there's no great alternative makes me think you've never tried Circus Ponies Notebook. It certainly doesn't lack features. One Note is just tied to Outlook, other than that there's nothing about it that's better than Circus Ponies Notebook.

http://www.circusponies.com/

 

[MikhailT]

I agree with you about the One Note thing in terms of MS including it with Mac Office but to say there's no great alternative makes me think you've never tried Circus Ponies Notebook. It certainly doesn't lack features. One Note is just tied to Outlook, other than that there's nothing about it that's better than Circus Ponies Notebook.

http://www.circusponies.com/

While it is your opinion, Circus has nothing on OneNote. It is a completely different note-taking style from OneNote. OneNote does not force you to be structured like Circus. The free-flowing data containers in OneNote is the primary reason that I love Onenote and the people that I know who use it has the same opinion. No other note-taking apps have it, unfortunately. The closest competitor is Zoho's Notebook.

 

[MorphingDragon]

While it is your opinion, Circus has nothing on OneNote. It is a completely different note-taking style from OneNote. OneNote does not force you to be structured like Circus. The free-flowing data containers in OneNote is the primary reason that I love Onenote and the people that I know who use it has the same opinion. No other note-taking apps have it, unfortunately. The closest competitor is Zoho's Notebook.

One note has nothing on my personal voice recorder.