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

brianvictor7 said:
Thank you very much for this considered commentary. Actually, could I get you started on the Surface vs iPad? Do you mean the Surface 3? I have been impressed by it at our local MS kiosk, but notice that the weight of the thing just doesn't compare to the iPad Air. Interested in your thoughts. Thanks..
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I had a Surface RT. I actually won one from Microsoft. It was a slick machine with some creative features and I LOVED that it had the full MS Office suite on it. Coupled with a keyboard, it was almost a laptop replacement...except that it wasn't. Microsoft should have never released the Surface RT. It switched you between a clean iPad-like environment and a scaled down desktop environment that didn't let you put other programs on it. It was jolting and unintuitive. And, sadly, they just haven't been able to get the app space going--which is what they needed for the Surface to take off. Comparitively, an iPad doesn't replace a laptop, but it's not meant to. It's a perfect on-the-go supplement, and everything about it just works. And, of course, there's an app for just about anything you need. The apps ultimately make the device.

The Surface 3 is a different story. I believe Microsoft finally got the marketing right with this one. It's a laptop replacement; a full computer that's compact and can be a tablet if you need it. But again, there aren't enough apps--it's not quite there. I believe when Windows 10 is released they'll have something worth buying.

But for me, they're too late to the party. At this point, if I'm going to spend that much on a light laptop, I'd rather have a Macbook Air. Put Office on it and you have the same thing minus the touch screen--which is what the Mac is missing. Give a Mac a touch screen and then we have the perfect computer. But until then, I've got my iPad mini. :D
 
Everything's gone flat...

Exchange 2013 on Windows,,, 10.10 on Mac and now this along with office on Windows too.

This must be a trend..
 
Tried to add my work account to Outlook 2016 - Immediately prompted to activate a 365 subscription. Anyone got this working with an Exchange account yet?

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itguy06 said:
It's frightening that you don't see that unlimited doesn't last forever.

When the iPhone came out we had unlimited data. That's gone on most carriers (AT&T, Verizon).

ISP's are trying very hard to do get to caps even on hard wired lines.

So if you don't think for a second at some point there will be a cap or discontinuance of limited or even a price increase you're a fool.

What will happen is you get in for $10/mo or whatever, then it's $12, $14, $17, etc.

MS is balancing a slight loss on their web services with the cash cow that is the Enterprise. What happens when the Enterprises get to have petabytes in MS's cloud? You think it will still be unlimited? Or will you pay out the nose?

Do the math - at $100 a year do you really think MS is making much money if you store a couple TB out there? Sure, storage is cheap but you have to power, cool, maintain, and backup it. Someone has to pay for that.

Folks, this isn't the "New Microsoft". They are the same scummy company they have aways been.
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Enterprise do not pay the same as consumers for Office 365 subscriptions, it's on a per user basis.

And the unlimited storage for consumers will last forever. I think the average amount a user has in their OneDrive is less than 1GB. This will probably raise by a few GB as people backup their camera rolls to OneDrive over time, but MS know what they are doing.

Microsoft are making money, but they can afford to give unlimited storage away when you realise how much money is generated, particularly from the Enterprise. How else do you think they keep the lights on in the data centres?
 
Tech198 said:
Everything's gone flat...

Exchange 2013 on Windows,,, 10.10 on Mac and now this along with office on Windows too.

This must be a trend..
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Jonathan Ivy is secretly moonlighting for Microsoft? :p

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JuryDuty said:
I had a Surface RT. I actually won one from Microsoft. It was a slick machine with some creative features and I LOVED that it had the full MS Office suite on it. Coupled with a keyboard, it was almost a laptop replacement...except that it wasn't. Microsoft should have never released the Surface RT. It switched you between a clean iPad-like environment and a scaled down desktop environment that didn't let you put other programs on it. It was jolting and unintuitive. And, sadly, they just haven't been able to get the app space going--which is what they needed for the Surface to take off. Comparitively, an iPad doesn't replace a laptop, but it's not meant to. It's a perfect on-the-go supplement, and everything about it just works. And, of course, there's an app for just about anything you need. The apps ultimately make the device.

The Surface 3 is a different story. I believe Microsoft finally got the marketing right with this one. It's a laptop replacement; a full computer that's compact and can be a tablet if you need it. But again, there aren't enough apps--it's not quite there. I believe when Windows 10 is released they'll have something worth buying.

But for me, they're too late to the party. At this point, if I'm going to spend that much on a light laptop, I'd rather have a Macbook Air. Put Office on it and you have the same thing minus the touch screen--which is what the Mac is missing. Give a Mac a touch screen and then we have the perfect computer. But until then, I've got my iPad mini. :D
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I really appreciate informed, critical opinions like this. Thank you. I don't have an iPad yet, but I can see a great deal of utility for it where it would be less convenient to use my MacBook. Someday, my machines will have to be replaced and I will be very interested to see Apple produce a Surface-like alternative.
 
Question to all Office power users, is Office 2016 for Mac on par with Office 2013 (or even Office 2016 for Windows) feature-wise?
 
PivotCharts

Does Excel finally support PivotCharts???

Thanks!

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Is Excel still crippled and worse than Excel 2010 on Windows?

Any power users?

How's Excel 2016 on the Mac?
 
My macro-enabled documents created and saved in Office 2013 never seem to work or display properly in Mac 2011. Here's hoping the update will fix that. I shall download the preview and if it doesnt work as expected, I'll have to go back to my VM solution. It IS a preview, though.
 
any help? its not opening for me. I click on the .pkg file and the installer icon bounces twice then closes... my file size is 2.5...
 
Belmont31R said:
It's also a standard in higher education. I've never really been able to submit assignments in iWork formats.
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Can you not submit as a PDF? Throughout my time at college I've used MS Word, Pages and Google Docs depending on my needs for the assignment I'm working on, and I always submit it as a PDF so I know all my formatting will be preserved regardless of what software I use to create it and what it is viewed in. The only exception is when I'm working on a long-term project and need to collaborate with professors on documents before submitting, in which case I'll use MS Word just to avoid compatibility issues.
 
jmiddel said:
So the new versions of Word etc are 20-30 times the size of their Office 2011 counterparts? WTF!?
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I highly doubt it. It's probably actually using the OS X method instead of installing random bits in random places. It's why to uninstall Office 2011, they had an uninstaller.
 
JD92 said:
Can you not submit as a PDF? Throughout my time at college I've used MS Word, Pages and Google Docs depending on my needs for the assignment I'm working on, and I always submit it as a PDF so I know all my formatting will be preserved regardless of what software I use to create it and what it is viewed in. The only exception is when I'm working on a long-term project and need to collaborate with professors on documents before submitting, in which case I'll use MS Word just to avoid compatibility issues.
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I usually get something like this from professors, "Please put your topic suggestions into a Micsosoft Word (or Word-comatible) document, and send the document to me as an email attachment." For this particular assignment it was just a few research topics we might like to do our final paper on, and I did write that out in Pages. I then copy/pasted into Word, and the formatting was messed up. So when professors prefer Word I just tend to write the assignment in Word to avoid any issues.

A PDF would probably be ok for some but I am used to defaulting to Word at this point, and don't want to take chances.
 
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