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Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 Updated for MacBook Pro Retina Display

mixro6 said:
What goes up, must come down. As for Apple going down before Microsoft — that's your personal opinion and, obviously, speculation. Nobody knows. Move along, troll.
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Obviously, you are not very fast. Of course, it is speculation. One key word is "could".
I imagine that if I worship Apple, my speculation is going to be accepted his holiness.

Just pathetic!
 
iamse7en said:
Thanks to individuals on the thread. What a lame update. Had to do touch command to each M$ app to make it go retina.

sudo touch /Applications/Microsoft\ Office\ 2011/Microsoft\ Excel.app
sudo touch /Applications/Microsoft\ Office\ 2011/Microsoft\ Word.app
sudo touch /Applications/Microsoft\ Office\ 2011/Microsoft\ PowerPoint.app
sudo touch /Applications/Microsoft\ Office\ 2011/Microsoft\ Outlook.app

I use Excel in Parallels anyways. Super fast, clean, and has all the same shortcuts the whole world is familiar with.
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Now that's funny. After 1.5 hours with MS support wiping EVERYTHING MS related from my computer and installing the update, I still had pixellated programs. I ran the above commands and it's MUCH better. Funny how the MS tech couldn't figure that out, and he claimed the updates were NOT to fix retina issues...
 
chirpie said:
I gotta hand it to Microsoft. Between genuinely coming up with a new/different OS experience in Windows 8 (Not an endorsement outright), and quick updates like this, they're at least trying again.
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Again? I can name a number of products which they have kick butt on in the past 10 years. .NET and ASP.NET, SQL Server, Xbox, Windows Server, Visual Studio, Windows Azure, SharePoint, Office. Many people just don't have much insight of the business Microsoft is and what their products are. I don't know, maybe it is because many people don't work in a corporate computing environment. Come on now, Windows client OS isn't their only product. It's time to let go of the Mac vs Windows non-war. Steve Jobs himself let go of "Mac vs Windows", to some degree, when he was hired back with Apple so many years ago. He said something in regards of, if we make it all about us versus them, we will lose. If someone has the exact quote, feel free to post.
 
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VenusianSky said:
Again? I can name a number of products which they have kick butt on in the past 10 years. .NET and ASP.NET, SQL Server, Xbox, Windows Server, Visual Studio, Windows Azure, SharePoint, Office. Many people just don't have much insight of the business Microsoft is and what their products are. I don't know, maybe it is because many people don't work in a corporate computing environment. Come on now, Windows client OS isn't their only product. It's time to let go of the Mac vs Windows non-war. Steve Jobs himself let go of "Mac vs Windows", to some degree, when he was hired back with Apple so many years ago. He said something in regards of, if we make it all about us versus them, we will lose. If someone has the exact quote, feel free to post.
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+10000

It’s absolutely hilarious how naive people are when it comes to how much corporate America is driven by Microsoft products. Everything from fortune 500 to smaller sized companies. I can’t tell you have many smaller shops I’ve seen that have SQL Server – SSIS/SSRS implementation.

Its amazing how much Microsoft contributes....sorry some people won't understand this like the typical 21 yo at Starbucks with his/her $2 grand Mac Pro that mommy and daddy financed for them.
 
VenusianSky said:
It's time to let go of the Mac vs Windows non-war. Steve Jobs himself let go of "Mac vs Windows", to some degree, when he was hired back with Apple so many years ago. He said something in regards of, if we make it all about us versus them, we will lose. If someone has the exact quote, feel free to post.
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That was at Macworld 1997, the same one where Jobs announced the partnership with Microsoft (which the audience booed) when Apple was on the verge of bankruptcy. Here's the full paragraph:

"If we want to move forward and see Apple healthy and prospering again, we have to let go of a few things here. We have to let go of this notion that for Apple to win, Microsoft has to lose," Jobs said. "We have to embrace the notion that for Apple to win, Apple has to do a really good job. If others are going to help us, that's great. Because we need all the help we can get…The era of setting this up as a competition between Apple and Microsoft is over."
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portishead said:
This makes me a little happy, but then I realized I rarely use office anyway. Oh well, good on Microsoft to do this.
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I cant get the uodate to install.It almost finishes installing but fails on the validation .. I even created a new User account, clean but the Update failed there too..
Anyone else have that problem? I have a new Retina Display Macbookpro. and Mountain Lion, 10.8.2 Updated yesterday)
 
tanousjm said:
Installed and verified that I'm now running 14.2.4. I took a screenshot before and after the update. There's no change. Something must be broken in the update.


Left is pre-update. Right is post-update.
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Same here, looks very un-retina too me as well.
 
Does power nap handle this? Is Google sketch up updated for retina?

Now we just have to wait a decade for autodesk revit to be a native :apple: app.
 
iamse7en said:
Thanks to individuals on the thread. What a lame update. Had to do touch command to each M$ app to make it go retina.

sudo touch /Applications/Microsoft\ Office\ 2011/Microsoft\ Excel.app
sudo touch /Applications/Microsoft\ Office\ 2011/Microsoft\ Word.app
sudo touch /Applications/Microsoft\ Office\ 2011/Microsoft\ PowerPoint.app
sudo touch /Applications/Microsoft\ Office\ 2011/Microsoft\ Outlook.app

I use Excel in Parallels anyways. Super fast, clean, and has all the same shortcuts the whole world is familiar with.
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NOW I have retina support. I'm glad I checked here for how to fix Microsoft's attempt. 🙂
 
sicn said:
Same here, looks very un-retina too me as well.
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Microsoft office has always looked "Retina" when you're rMBP is set to the natural resolution of the screen using Scaled, More Space.

Office always scales nicely to the screen resolution.

However, the recommended retina setting has a weird scaling, and so the Office Update was necessary when using the recommended Apple retina setting.
 
pacalis said:
Microsoft office has always looked "Retina" when you're rMBP is set to the natural resolution of the screen using Scaled, More Space.

Office always scales nicely to the screen resolution.

However, the recommended retina setting has a weird scaling, and so the Office Update was necessary when using the recommended Apple retina setting.
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Scaled, More Space isn't the natural resolution of the screen. It may look nicer there, but...

Thanks for the fix here for MS's failed update 🙂

Also - FWIW - I can't execute 'sudo touch' on my work machine, as I'm not admin. However, just 'touch' appears to work.
 
Big whoop

So, if Word, Excel, Powerpoint would open files I get from PC users correctly, I might get excited, but these apps open and the text is invisible. Makes them tough to read. The only solution is to change the font. Interesting that these are the ONLY apps I have problems with.
 
Installation Failure

Hi - Have OSX 10.8.2 (non retina Macbook Pro) and trying to install this update - the process seems to complete but then the installer gives me a message "Installer encountered serious error" and t the top it says "you might want to try the install again" - tried multiple times - anyoen else get this failure?
 
Actually, it is NOT "fully" Retina! 🙁
Look at the "Styles". I just wanna know if I need to delete some old file? Anyone? Cheers!
 

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aurichie said:
If you're using Microsoft Office on a Mac, you blew it.
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Why? I have Pages, Keynote and Numbers as well as Office. As much as I want them to be fully compatible, they just aren't. I get some pretty complex Excel spreadsheets with embedded formulas and hooks into Oracle databases....Numbers just doesn't work. I also have to develop and write process documentation available to hundreds on SharePoints....doing it in Pages and saving it as a Word doc really causes alot of problems.

Personally I like Pages, and use it for my personal stuff....
 
bubbleboyjones said:
+10000

It’s absolutely hilarious how naive people are when it comes to how much corporate America is driven by Microsoft products. Everything from fortune 500 to smaller sized companies. I can’t tell you have many smaller shops I’ve seen that have SQL Server – SSIS/SSRS implementation.

Its amazing how much Microsoft contributes....sorry some people won't understand this like the typical 21 yo at Starbucks with his/her $2 grand Mac Pro that mommy and daddy financed for them.
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aurichie said:
If you're using Microsoft Office on a Mac, you blew it.
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Which platform can I switch to in order to get away from this type of utter immaturity? 🙄
 
Thanks all for the "touch" advice. Being able to run Office 2011 in OSX is going to save my bacon. I've been trying to run Office 2013 in Windows 8 in Parallels and while it was surprisingly stable all things considered, it was a major pain in the ass.
 
Thanks for the 'touch' Terminal commands! That did the trick.

henry72 said:
Actually, it is NOT "fully" Retina! 🙁
Look at the "Styles". I just wanna know if I need to delete some old file? Anyone? Cheers!
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Various graphics here and there were probably either left out for future updates or were overlooked. I can see more than just the styles that weren't updated in Word (for example, the margin arrows). No big deal. Most of what I see has been updated—especially the text, which is what really matters—so I'm happy. I'm quite surprised Microsoft released this update so quickly.
 
Paul7 said:
How is this a quick turn around? It's been months and many other apps are already Retina. Plus, the update is messed up. I'm still not seeing retina. Microsoft can't even get their update correct!!
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Seeing that Microsoft doesn't have to support Apple, it's a pretty quick turnaround. Microsoft supports their products AND Apple's. But Apple? No. Us only.
 
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