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

[Renzatic]

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

I can't give you an exact figure, but it'd be a pretty good size. Something you'd only likely see come out of banks or large corporations that have been around for awhile.

Though the other advantage of going all 64-bit would be for the sake of simplicity at the OS level. Getting all the same apps using the same libraries under the same environment makes for an oh so slightly more streamlined operating system.

 

[philreeth]

weird, all the other apps open without problems. Just outlook .

I have the same issue..It opens the Outlook window for 1 second and crashes. This may have something to do with the fact that I am running on the Yosemite 10.10.3 beta ??
All other apps from the Office Suite are working fine.

 

[Ollifi]

Mirror Download URL = http://miroir1.trackr.fr/miroirs.ph...kr.fr/office2016/OfficePreview.pkg&source=mac

 

[Jamalien]

Mirror Download URL = http://miroir1.trackr.fr/miroirs.ph...kr.fr/office2016/OfficePreview.pkg&source=mac

I love you

 

[Young Turk]

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.

Word takes more time to launch and just seems slower overall than previous version.

 

[jfischer]

Outlook 2016 is giving me three fits:

One, it says that it only works with Office 365 mail accounts, is that true? We have on-premise Exchange 2010.

Which brings up the next error, it says it won't work with Exchange 2010 data files.

And now it crashes every time it tries to start.

Nice.

 

[~Shard~]

Excellent news, and obviously a long time coming as well! Looking forward to trying it out and learning more once price points are finalized and such.

This feels wrong to say, but "Thank you Microsoft"???

 

[phuocsandiego]

Why would you want Office 365? One word, UNLIMITED . As in unlimited cloud storage. Yes, you read that right. Unlimited. Not 1 TB or 100 TB but unlimited. That and the latest version of Office all the time? Sync anything you want... all your photos, HD movies, documents, etc. Count me in.

http://blogs.office.com/2014/10/27/onedrive-now-unlimited-storage-office-365-subscribers/

 

[RedRaven571]

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.

I think so, I just tried to DL and my estimate was 8 hours; I think I'll try later/tomorrow.

Also, the website states "The new Office for Mac is officially supported on machines running Yosemite (10.10)." I'm running Mavericks but I'm going to give it a try.

 

[FamiliarPie]

Mirror Download URL = http://miroir1.trackr.fr/miroirs.ph...kr.fr/office2016/OfficePreview.pkg&source=mac

I was getting 0KBps from Microsoft, then tried this link. Ran at 100KBps for a bit then slowed. Then went back to Microsoft and now at 2.2MBps. I don't know how you did it, but I'll give you credit anyway!

 

[Swiss-G]

Has anyone got any solutions yet for fixing Outlook? Just crashes straight away on both my Macs!

Try this. Outlook for Mac for Office 365 crashes immediately after startup

 

[nojkepop]

No option to import from Mac Mail?

I am not seeing an option to import/migrate from OS X Mail to Outlook. Pretty embarrassing if this is the case.

 

[jfischer]

I have the same issue..It opens the Outlook window for 1 second and crashes. This may have something to do with the fact that I am running on the Yosemite 10.10.3 beta ??
All other apps from the Office Suite are working fine.

Crashes here too on 10.10.2, no beta. Everything else seems to work as well.

 

[Bobster16]

I have the same issue..It opens the Outlook window for 1 second and crashes. This may have something to do with the fact that I am running on the Yosemite 10.10.3 beta ??
All other apps from the Office Suite are working fine.

Did you try to import the settings from Office 2011 too?

 

[LxHunter]

Word takes more time to launch and just seems slower overall than previous version.

I see the same thing.
Word 2011 about 1 sec
Word 2015 about 5 sec.
Excel about same maybe bit slower.

 

[jfischer]

Try this. Outlook for Mac for Office 365 crashes immediately after startup

osfcore.framework is already lower case on my system, so apparently this fix isn't the issue for me anyway.

 

[Crazy Badger]

Let's hope they bring out Visio as well. Then I can fully ditch my Windows VM.

Check out OmniGraffle

 

[Swiss-G]

Outlook 2016 is giving me three fits:

One, it says that it only works with Office 365 mail accounts, is that true? We have on-premise Exchange 2010.

Which brings up the next error, it says it won't work with Exchange 2010 data files.

And now it crashes every time it tries to start.

Nice.

It supports Exchange Server 2010 SP2 or higher

 

[Nuvi]

Why would you want Office 365? One word, UNLIMITED . As in unlimited cloud storage. Yes, you read that right. Unlimited. Not 1 TB or 100 TB but unlimited. That and the latest version of Office all the time? Sync anything you want... all your photos, HD movies, documents, etc. Count me in.

http://blogs.office.com/2014/10/27/onedrive-now-unlimited-storage-office-365-subscribers/

Yep, to me that is whole point of Office 365 subscription. Its really not the Office applications but the unlimited cloud storage.

 

[elgrecomac]

It's already broken for me! Outlook tried to import data from Outlook 2011 and now it keeps crashing!

Le sigh!!

It's called a beta.

 

[SlCKB0Y]

Install takes 5.62 GB on late 2011 MBP.

My god, what a bloated mess...

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Let's hope they bring out Visio as well. Then I can fully ditch my Windows VM.

Tried Omnigraffle?

 

[jfischer]

It supports Exchange Server 2010 SP2 or higher

Just remembered that we are still stuck on Exchange 2007, so no point in trying to make it work at this point

 

[shaunvis]

Outlook crash on opening it. Sadly, that's the only app I really use too. The rest seem OK.

At least 2011 still works.

 

[gr4z]

My god, what a bloated mess...

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Tried Omnigraffle?

Yeah tried it. Trouble is all my IT architecture work design stuff is done in Visio...

 

[kwokaaron]

I think so, I just tried to DL and my estimate was 8 hours; I think I'll try later/tomorrow.

Also, the website states "The new Office for Mac is officially supported on machines running Yosemite (10.10)." I'm running Mavericks but I'm going to give it a try.

Don't bother. It doesn't work. Managed to bypass the OS requirement check for the installer and tweaked with the files in the apps. This is really stupid though. Don't really understand why Yosemite is set as the minimum requirement.