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Microsoft Fully Drops Support for Office for Mac 2011

I still use 2008. I wish the world would drift away from being so dependent on Office. I prefer Pages and the Apple suite. Or even Google docs are great. But there are still too many things I need actual office for.
 
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puckhead193 said:
how many licenses do you get? I think you only get one license? I need at least 3
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Well the Version I have I received at the MS headquarters in Redmond for participating in focus group in ‘08. Btw I love Office 2008.
 
I have the family version of Office 365 and love it. 5 accounts that each get a mobile device, a computer, and 1 TB of OneDrive storage for $9.99 a month. As well as upgrades as they come. Easy decision to make to always be up to date.
 
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OldSchoolMacGuy said:
I'm not surprised at all. Just because companies are cheap and don't want to bother spending money to upgrade unless they absolutely have to shouldn't be the fault of the app developers.
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I'm not surprised at all. Just because Microsoft is cheap and doesn't want to bother maintaining their software unless they feel they absolutely have to, and wants to charge tons of money for a laggy upgrade, isn't the fault of the consumers who are upset by this.
 
I wish Mac Apps supported Office (meaning file extension and importing exporting), I would get rid of office in a heartbeat. I LOATHE subscription software. Unfortunately, 100% of businesses that I deal with and work for use MS Office.
 
autrefois said:
I'm not surprised at all. Just because Microsoft is cheap and doesn't want to bother maintaining their software unless they feel they absolutely have to, and wants to charge tons of money for a laggy upgrade, isn't the fault of the consumers who are upset by this.
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I'm not Microsoft fan but show me another developer that actively updates their 7+ year old software, even when they have a newer version available. Apple, Adobe, and others don't.

Businesses rely on this software every day to help them generate billions of dollars in value. It's silly to think they can't be bothered to pay a small fee once every 7 or so years for something so critical to their business.
 
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mmm1345 said:
I wish Mac Apps supported Office (meaning file extension and importing exporting), I would get rid of office in a heartbeat. I LOATHE subscription software. Unfortunately, 100% of businesses that I deal with and work for use MS Office.
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They do.
Pages can open, edit, and save .doc and .docx extensions.
Numbers can open, edit and save .xls and .xlsx extensions.
Keynote can open, edit and save .ppt and .pptx extensions.


You're really only going to have problems if your documents are extremely complicated in terms of layout. The commenting and track change functions don't always import/export correctly, but if you're just opening and editing basic text documents or spreadsheets, iWork apps are fine.
 
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Running office 2011 here too. A long way from perfect but I don’t want to be paying £10 a month to open a few word docs.

Slightly concerned how i’m going to reinstall it if I ever decide to do a system nuke and re-install OS from scratch. (Or when I upgrade to a new(er) Mac)
 
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I'll stick with 2011 for my machines. It works and did not stop working when they introduced 2016.
And let's not forget the new version as far as I can tell is a subscription model.

Subscription models are a plague.
I stopped upgrading Adobe CS for the same reason.
 
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RedTomato said:
Running office 2011 here too. A long way from perfect but I don’t want to be paying £10 a month to open a few word docs.

Slightly concerned how i’m going to reinstall it if I ever decide to do a system nuke and re-install OS from scratch. (Or when I upgrade to a new(er) Mac)
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Same. I did a clean install when I upgraded to HS a few weeks ago and had to re-download 2011 from MS. The link didn't work, and I had to contact tech support. Guess that wouldn't be an option anymore.
 
mmm1345 said:
I wish Mac Apps supported Office (meaning file extension and importing exporting), I would get rid of office in a heartbeat. I LOATHE subscription software. Unfortunately, 100% of businesses that I deal with and work for use MS Office.
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Don't we all hate subscription based software? The good news in this case is that there is an extremely simple solution for that problem: Don't buy an Office 365 subscription, buy a perpetual license of Office 2016 instead. They are available, you know.
 
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OldSchoolMacGuy said:
I'm not surprised at all. Just because companies are cheap and don't want to bother spending money to upgrade unless they absolutely have to shouldn't be the fault of the app developers.
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Companies have enterprise agreements. This enables them to use any currently supported version of software. It's a migration issue, not a software licensing issue.
 
Solomani said:
But that's negligent of them as corporations (and government agencies) since those outdated software are exactly the optimal targets for hackers, malware, trojans, etc. — especially now that MS will no longer update or issue security patches.
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Actually some of this computers are so old enough that hackers don’t care anymore. When was the last time you heard in the news an old computer being hacked. Besides it’s Windows it doesn’t matter if it’s new they’re always a target.
 
yesjam said:
I'm still on Office 2011 on my Mac which is running High Sierra. Works just as well as always, which is to say that while it is a bloated and laggy piece of software, it is no more bloated and laggy than it was previously.

I tried installing 2016 on this same Mac last year and found it to be an even worse experience so I promptly re-installed 2011.

The price of Office 365 or a standalone copy of Office for one computer + the inherent level of B.S. one has to put up with when using Microsoft Office means that I can't justify "up"grading from 2011.
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I have Office 2016 on my MBA 2015 1.6ghz i5 and it runs great, what Mac are you using?
 
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RedTomato said:
Running office 2011 here too. A long way from perfect but I don’t want to be paying £10 a month to open a few word docs.

Slightly concerned how i’m going to reinstall it if I ever decide to do a system nuke and re-install OS from scratch. (Or when I upgrade to a new(er) Mac)
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I am also wondering if when we install from scratch it will activate, including getting the service packs up to the last one released 14.7.7.

With each service pack, do we have to install each of the older ones first (separately) or does 14.7.7 (last) have all of them bundled together so we only have to install the last one?
 
wikiverse said:
They do.
Pages can open, edit, and save .doc and .docx extensions.
Numbers can open, edit and save .xls and .xlsx extensions.
Keynote can open, edit and save .ppt and .pptx extensions.


You're really only going to have problems if your documents are extremely complicated in terms of layout. The commenting and track change functions don't always import/export correctly, but if you're just opening and editing basic text documents or spreadsheets, iWork apps are fine.
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thanks! I did not know that. My docs usually aren't that complicated, although I do use Track Changes sometimes during my day job.
 
Hater said:
Companies have enterprise agreements. This enables them to use any currently supported version of software. It's a migration issue, not a software licensing issue.
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loby said:
I am also wondering if when we install from scratch it will activate, including getting the service packs up to the last one released 14.7.7.

With each service pack, do we have to install each of the older ones first (separately) or does 14.7.7 (last) have all of them bundled together so we only have to install the last one?
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Good points. I wonder if one were to obtain install packs from 'alternative' sources, if you would still be covered by your pre-existing licence. I think that would be the case, as long as the licence terms were still met.

Regarding service packs, I (as a lightweight user) haven't seen much benefit from the later service packs*, so it seems if you can get your hands on a relatively late version install pack, I wouldn't worry about updating to the very latest 14.7.7 version.

If you're such a heavy user of Office that you need something from a missing service pack, that's a strong case for biting the bullet and updating to a newer Office.

*famously most users only use 10% of the features, but each user uses a different 10%.
 
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