Apparently there will be constant flow of new beta seeds before going GM sometime during the summer. Its just that regular beta stuff, some applications might be (most of the time) fine but you can't really rely on them.
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Microsoft Launches Office 2016 for Mac Preview, Available for Free to Mac Users
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Apparently there will be constant flow of new beta seeds before going GM sometime during the summer. Its just that regular beta stuff, some applications might be (most of the time) fine but you can't really rely on them.
LOL. You are so funny. Do you really think Microsoft will keep it unlimited forever? Keep dreaming. Once they "rule the world" they will jack the price up as you'll have TB and TB of data out there so moving from it will be way too hard.
MS has a long history of screwing their customers without the use of Vaseline.
Want enterprise licensing for Office? You have to take Exchange (even though it's garbage) for "free". Just pay us for the server license at some astronomical rate. Oh, and we'll jack you around every year with high "re-up" costs. Where else you gonna go? And if you do go, the BSA goons will show up. There are plenty of cases of just that in the world.
Win 10 will be free. Except to Enterprise users.
MS costs per year are among the highest in the business!
If you think that MS will keep cloud storage free forever, keep dreaming! They will put limits or jack it up when they feel they can.
Sorry, it's the same old Microsoft that has been a cancer on the world for far too long!
Yes, I believe it will be unlimited forever. Remember, first: You're paying for it. It's not free. It's only available with the monthly 365 subscription. Second, the cost of storage is constantly decreasing. Third, once you're using it, you're probably not going to cancel. Too much of a hassle if you have everything you own backed up there. It's a brilliant plan that keeps us devoted to them.
Good for you but 99.99% of corporate America is MS office based. I just wished they'd convert Visio and Project so I won't have a need for a VM running Windows.
How big is pages, numbers, and keynote? And what is in Office that isn't in iWork?
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And you have some reason to believe this beyond ideology? Seriously, this isn't old Microsoft.
I don't know and I don't care. Almost certainly not this big.
When Office is nearly as big as a fresh install of the OS and FOUR times bigger than the previous version, that's a bloated mess.
A quick look in the Applications folder puts most of the 2016 Office apps at around 1.5GB each, and the iWorks stuff at 400-500MB each. Just roughly.
It's brilliant. A bit rough around the edges on Office 2007, perfected with Office 2010 and completely brilliant in Office 2013.
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You can't be doing very much if you get by using that rubbish.
Same here, I launch it but it immediately crashes. osfcore.framework is also all lowercase for me.
yeah don't think this is our problem, mine is all lowercase and still having issues.
I've done all permissions repairs and even did a disk repair.
Personally, Office 2010 was the best. Office 2013 is way too flat and white for me.
It's not free, it's part of your Office 365 subscription that you pay money for.
How can you not understand that? It's so simple that it's frightening that you don't get it.
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Use the Dark theme?
There is good chance there will be some sort of limitations at some point. However, if you examine Bitcasa which was the first unlimited cloud storage you'll find out that vast majority of users end up using only gigabytes not even a single terabyte of cloud storage. Unlimited storage is more of an marketing push than a service everyone requires and actually need. Regarding the future, I'm leaning towards of expecting to see more and more unlimited cloud storage solutions than seeing them change to limited storage options.
When it comes down to enterprise solutions every service provider wants to suck you dry. The cost of software / hardware support and maintenance is insane. IMHO, MS is far from being the worst. Compare them to Autodesk and they are just bunch of saints (ok, maybe not saints but at least they are not trying to get insane support fees just so you can download updates).
Ps. ...and no, the MS Onedrive is not free, its the "killer app" of paid Office 365 subscription.
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That's exactly it. I was so excited when OneDrive went unlimited that I uploaded all my Office docs, videos, photos, iTunes library and a ton of video backup to it. You know how much storage I've used? Under 5TB.
They make it unlimited, but really, most users will use a fraction of that.
I'm hoping this means that the Windows and Mac versions' year numbers will be in sync, which would be a lot less confusing.
Only the preview is "free." Stops working ~30 days after the last preview update and becomes a 5GB paperweight.
Or you remove once the Preview period ends or buy Office 365.
Or get the Office 2016 update for free as part of your subscription, like I will.
My Outlook is crashing upon opening too. Every time. Currently unusable.
I did. Does that make a difference? It seemed to input everything fine. But after a few clicks around in Outlook trying to look at email, it crashed, and now it crashes every time I reopen.
Mine was already lowercase as well - so that's no fix.