If what you get is Office 365 Home (in other words, without an Exchange mailbox), you are using the consumer OneDrive which has no such limitation. OD4B is in fact a OneDrive branded Sharepoint -ugh- mess.Huh. I didn't know about the 20k file limitation. Currently, I'm syncing all my Office files, all my photos, all my videos and my entire iTunes library without a problem...but maybe I'll have one soon!
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Microsoft Launches Office 2016 for Mac Preview, Available for Free to Mac Users
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I'm noticing quite a few evolutionary features that make it work very slick (I'm only testing Word right now). But it works very much like the latest version of Word for Windows. Interestingly, there's now the ability to easily collaborate on a document by inviting others to it. Could be interesting...
IME, 80% of office work is done pretty crappy. Maybe if they learned how their software worked, it would be better. Of course, then I wouldn't have the praise I have for what I do, so maybe I should just shut up.
OK, that makes sense. I was thinking something must be wrong about that because I have 12,000 music files on there alone. Add all my photos, video files, and Office documents and I'm sure I'm over 20,000.
Huh. I didn't know about the 20k file limitation. Currently, I'm syncing all my Office files, all my photos, all my videos and my entire iTunes library without a problem...but maybe I'll have one soon!
Perhaps is the Business solution, right now I have 58.237 files syncing without problems
even that I think that all things that microsoft do are pure crap... but seriously are you work with numbers in a real professional day work environment? if yes you know that excel for mac is better than numbers, numbers are like a toy app... maybe pages and keynote are good enough but numbers are very bad...
so great news to me!
so great news to me!
Excited to get home and check this out, Free (even if beta) is nice. I'm only bummed that this appears to be a part of Office 365 as I'm really not interested in a subscription, at least at the price they are offering it for. I realize it's a "good deal" for 5 computers ($100), but I have my Macbook Pro and iPad and feel that the slightly cheaper is too high ($80 a year I think). Also, with my current job utilizing google docs so much, I'm not sure why I would pay for this other than just to have it...
Thank you very, very much for this information. "Microsoft has not yet done anything about the fact that it maxes out at 20,000 files"
Still very attractive for those 20,000 files.
I just quickly browsed a file with about 10,000 rows and 190 columns. On my '09 MP quad, it scrolls very nicely both horizontally and vertically.
My guess is that this is a total rewrite with new tech. The apps don't have a crazy support folder in the /Applications directory anymore; they're monolithic bundles. Word is like 1.5GB by itself, including a bundled folder of 500MB of fonts. The whole install is 5.5GB.
I think it's what you're used to. The best tool is the one that works.
For me, growing up on PC Calc, then Excel, Numbers isn't that intuitive to me.
I do know that if I work it for 3-6 months, I know that I'll be good at Numbers.
It's just an "I'm used to ..." thing.
Scruff's paying homage to the contingent of posters who believe Apple should make all the money possible. Some of that same contingent stridently believe anything not from Apple should be extremely cheap or better yet free.
If you don't know any of those posters the comment might not be funny. I do know some of them; one in particular. It was funny to me and spot on to the poster I'm referencing.
I think Keynote is a viable alternative to PowerPoint. It's a bit sleeker to use, and certainly creates more modern presentations out-of-the-box. But when you really get into either, they pretty much do the same things.
Word and Pages, and Excel and Numbers are different stories. You have to give Microsoft props on both of those. Especially when you tie in OneDrive and the iPad counterparts.
For me, I'm looking forward to Visio, Access, and Project for Mac, along with the rest of the Office Suite already out there.
OneDrive personal use does not have the limit mentioned in the latter article. Poor writing by the author.
Just finished downloading it and tried it out for about an hour.
It's noticeably faster than Office 2011, thank god. But it's still not as fast as iWork. For example, I have a document I'm working on in Pages that I export as MS Word (I'm the only Mac user in the company).
It's 42 pages, 7000 words, and includes about 15 screen shots scaled down (it's a software requirements doc):
-Pages scrolls fine without glitching/hiccups. Can zoom in/out without stuttering
-Office 2011 scrolls with massive hiccups, freezes. Zooming in/out makes you overshoot what zoom level you want because of this.
-Office 2016 is somewhere in the middle, but closer to Pages' performance.
Same thing in Excel as well, although Excel 2016 is auto-calcing quite a bit faster than Numbers.
Would I pay for Office 2016? Hell yes. It's much improved. But the beta still has some performance issues.
For reference I'm on a 2014 rMBP, i7, 8GB of RAM, 256GB Flash.
It's noticeably faster than Office 2011, thank god. But it's still not as fast as iWork. For example, I have a document I'm working on in Pages that I export as MS Word (I'm the only Mac user in the company).
It's 42 pages, 7000 words, and includes about 15 screen shots scaled down (it's a software requirements doc):
-Pages scrolls fine without glitching/hiccups. Can zoom in/out without stuttering
-Office 2011 scrolls with massive hiccups, freezes. Zooming in/out makes you overshoot what zoom level you want because of this.
-Office 2016 is somewhere in the middle, but closer to Pages' performance.
Same thing in Excel as well, although Excel 2016 is auto-calcing quite a bit faster than Numbers.
Would I pay for Office 2016? Hell yes. It's much improved. But the beta still has some performance issues.
For reference I'm on a 2014 rMBP, i7, 8GB of RAM, 256GB Flash.
Yeah, mine came in about 10 minutes. Pretty fast considering that it's likely getting hammered.
Well, this is just a beta, so don't change your financial plans. But also, Office on iPad is now free, and that limited version is enough for most iPad users.
And Publisher. I still feel at a loss when wanting to create a quick flyer or church bulletin.