Microsoft Launches Office 2016 for Mac Preview, Available for Free to Mac Users

[petvas]

Outlook works fine here. I had the previous Outlook 2015 beta though and my database got upgraded on the first run of the new version. So far everything is looking good.

 

[Agent-J]

Want to stay on Mavericks forever?

It works just fine, and is less than 2 years old. There are no useful features for me in Yosemite. On the contrary, there are UI/UX changes I find unappealing. Not everybody needs a new look-and-feel experience every d****d year.

I need to use Office for work, and am using Office 2010 in a Win7 VM at present. It would have been nice to dump the VM and upgrade Office. Guess not. 🙁

 

[Belmont31R]

Probably a subscription based office-365 payment solution only. Which practically excludes everyone who just use this program sporadically and not one a daily basis....I'll guess I will just stick with google docs and the old office package.

Almost guaranteed you will be able to buy 2016 without a subscription. People have been crying about O365 since it came out and so far all of the Office apps have been able to be purchased by themselves..same as you always did before.

 

[mKTank]

Thank Christ. Pages is such a massive POS.

 

[STOCK411]

Probably a subscription based office-365 payment solution only. Which practically excludes everyone who just use this program sporadically and not one a daily basis....I'll guess I will just stick with google docs and the old office package.

doubt it... Office 2013 for windows was sold as a standalone (along with a student and teacher edition)

 

[Swiss-G]

Pages. Much better page layout program than Word can ever dream of being.

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I'd be interested if Apple uses Office? My guess is no. And they are certainly a large company. They even "get by" without Windows!

Hmmm.

Isn't that Windows XP running on the assembly line for the Mac Pro?

 

[brianvictor7]

It works just fine, and is less than 2 years old. There are no useful features for me in Yosemite. On the contrary, there are UI/UX changes I find unappealing. Not everybody needs a new look-and-feel experience every d****d year.

I need to use Office for work, and am using Office 2010 in a Win7 VM at present. It would have been nice to dump the VM and upgrade Office. Guess not. 🙁

To each their own, but eventually upgrading won't be option.

 

[titansrule1113]

Can any who has managed to download the dmg post a link for mega or the like?

 

[Belmont31R]

Download is slow... 1.2MBPS and I'm on a 300/20 connection!

 

[brianvictor7]

Hmmm.

Isn't that Windows XP running on the assembly line for the Mac Pro?

It certainly does look like it, though it could just be a program specific for the assembly line. Resolution isn't high enough for me to be confident either way.

 

[kingtj]

re: staying on Mavericks

For what it's worth? I just attended a conference the other day where a couple of Microsoft reps. were present and discussing product licensing.

The big "takeaway" was that Microsoft is *very* interested in leveraging their "Azure" cloud platform in the years to come as THE way you'll use their products.

For example, in the future, they'd like to do away with the concept of people buying a copy of "Windows Server" to install on a PC. Instead, you'll just pay a fee to spin one up in the cloud, using your current Azure subscription, and run it that way.

By the same token, the Office 365 thing is just a stepping stone on the path to selling the Office suite as a subscription service. This is likely the last time you'll be able to pay for a "stand alone" Office product from Microsoft. In the future, they'd like to only sell it as an evolving code-base that receives frequent updates, and which you use and stay current on by keeping a current Office 365 subscription.

With Microsoft having that mindset, it's no surprise they'd be fairly picky about you having to run only the latest version of OS X to install this release of Office. (Clearly, they DO think you should be regularly upgrading the OS and apps you use, and if not -- you can just stick with the old, outdated stuff. Because to them, the future is software as a subscription and a lot of things that will run in the cloud, so will be platform independent/neutral anyway.)

It works just fine, and is less than 2 years old. There are no useful features for me in Yosemite. On the contrary, there are UI/UX changes I find unappealing. Not everybody needs a new look-and-feel experience every d****d year.

I need to use Office for work, and am using Office 2010 in a Win7 VM at present. It would have been nice to dump the VM and upgrade Office. Guess not. 🙁

 

[Swiss-G]

Can we confirm that? Any links available?

Activity Monitor shows that they are all 32-bit.

 

[Nuvi]

so Office 2015 is free forever?

No, its free just for the beta testing period. Once released (during summer) it's paid upgrade if you are not Office 365 subscriber.

 

[Ollifi]

Really, someone who was able to download it, please upload it to mega.co.nz so that others can benefit as well. It's stupid to show off with something that others cannot achieve currently.

 

[brianvictor7]

Activity Monitor shows that they are all 32-bit.

Thanks. How will that affect program and machine performace? Battery usage? I'm not very up on the differences between 32 and 64 bit (I should probably do some homework on that).

 

[bushido]

lol 9 hours ...

 

[cambookpro]

Just me, or same for everyone?! I'm getting 100 Mbps down on a speed test, so I presume their server is just getting hammered.

 

[Renzatic]

Thanks. How will that affect program and machine performace? Battery usage? I'm not very up on the differences between 32 and 64 bit (I should probably do some homework on that).

Generally, you want to go 64-bit if you're running a program that requires a lot of ram, and does a lot of heavy computation. Excel would get a nice boost from going 64-bit, especially if you're working with huge spreadsheets. Word? Neh. Wouldn't hurt. Wouldn't help much, either.

 

[LxHunter]

Activity Monitor shows that they are all 32-bit.

Can somebody explain to me why 32 Bit?
The only other 32 bit Apps I have are Dropbox and Google Drive (that I know of0

 

[silvetti]

Excel being 32 bits is a bit of a fail IMO.

On a company environment with large spreadsheets that's a nono and a invitation to constant hangs.

 

[brianvictor7]

Generally, you want to go 64-bit if you're running a program that requires a lot of ram, and does a lot of heavy computation. Excel would get a nice boost from going 64-bit, especially if you're working with huge spreadsheets. Word? Neh. Wouldn't hurt. Wouldn't help much, either.

Thanks! How big/complex would the excel spreadsheet have to be to see the difference do you think?

 

[kwokaaron]

Can somebody explain to me why 32 Bit?
The only other 32 bit Apps I have are Dropbox and Google Drive (that I know of0

Cause Microsoft is lazy like that. There's no point making something better if it works, in their opinion.

 

[silvetti]

Thanks! How big/complex would the excel spreadsheet have to be to see the difference do you think?

It's not just about size but calculations and if the excel workbook needs to get data from other sources.

I've only seen issues with Excel and 32bit/64bit on a corporate level, I work in IT for big pharma and our spreadsheets sometimes are HUGE and very complex and a simple change of values and telling Excel to recalculate on a 32bit excel 2007 will cause the whole system to hung for a good 10 minutes 😀

 

[jfischer]

Didn't see any mention of it, but is Lync 2016 included in this beta?

 

[Swiss-G]

Can somebody explain to me why 32 Bit?
The only other 32 bit Apps I have are Dropbox and Google Drive (that I know of0

This..

Generally, you want to go 64-bit if you're running a program that requires a lot of ram, and does a lot of heavy computation. Excel would get a nice boost from going 64-bit, especially if you're working with huge spreadsheets. Word? Neh. Wouldn't hurt. Wouldn't help much, either.