Is Microsoft Office a nativa arm app yet for M chips?

[Sensamic]

Haven't seen much news about this. Got an iMac M3 right now.

Is Microsoft Office already ARM native?

I did install my old suite and works great, but takes around 10 seconds to open. On the store, it took just 3/4 seconds to open. How so?

 

[fwmireault]

Yes the Microsoft Office suite is already using a universal binary

 

[dumastudetto]

Apple's suite of office applications is fully native.

 

[bogdanw]

Universal and Native Apple Silicon Apps https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/universal-and-native-apple-silicon-apps.2267176/

Is Apple Silicon ready? https://isapplesiliconready.com/

 

[chrfr]

Is Microsoft Office already ARM native?

It has been for a few years now.

 

[Sensamic]

Is universal and native the same thing?

If it was native I thought it would launch faster on my new M3 iMac.

 

[bogdanw]

Apple’s preinstalled apps (Safari, Mail, and all) are Universal.
Apple Developer Documentation - Building a Universal macOS Binary
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/apple-silicon/building-a-universal-macos-binary

You can make an arm64 only version to see if it starts faster. Example Microsoft Word for Apple Silicon only

ditto --rsrc --arch arm64 /Applications/Microsoft\ Word.app /Applications/Microsoft\ Word_arm64.app

 

[chrfr]

Is universal and native the same thing?

If it was native I thought it would launch faster on my new M3 iMac.

It is extremely unlikely there'd be any difference between a Universal and strictly Apple Silicon native app.

 

[Tagbert]

Is universal and native the same thing?

If it was native I thought it would launch faster on my new M3 iMac.

There are a lot of things that contribute to how fast an app opens or not. It isn't always just loading the file, there are often things that the OS does to check the app for instance.

I've mostly stopped worrying about how long it takes to load an app. Usually the time I'm working with the app is significantly longer so, once it is open, the time no longer matters. I'll typically keep an app like the office apps open for most of the day once I've got it open as I will probably need to use it multiple time across the day.

 

[leifp]

Is universal and native the same thing?

If it was native I thought it would launch faster on my new M3 iMac.

If you are on Apple Silicon then universal and native is the same thing. (If you’re on Intel, universal will run while ASi native will not)

I cannot speak to your personal MSOffice launch speeds. Word and Excel launch more or less instantly for me (M1Max). The first time it runs after a macOS update takes about 6 seconds. It seems to be performing some diagnostics before being ready to use.