Microsoft Releases Office 2016 for Mac With Updated Versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and More

[JungleNYC]

It's more a mental attitude thing.
Like it or not, all things, be they one off purchased or monthly payments.

You are in effect, over time, paying money for them.
It's just how you perceive it.

The nice thing about subs is that you are always up to date, and they wish to keep you paying, so they keep working.

Agree. As long as it's reasonable exchange, and imho this is, it doesn't feel so exploitative. For this software suite AND the storage: 9.99 for 1TB + the software I think is a damn good deal. If they can eventually make their cloud storage do most of the things Dropbox does, I'll (achem) drop Dropbox in a heartbeat, and be left with just iCloud and OneDrive (which I can also use w/ my Xbox). Which would be $20 a month (or less if you go yearly). Now, if Apple can bundle in iTunes Music / Match with that, too, then that would be even better.

Adobe's BS, on the other hand is infuriating. So over-priced. Shame on that company. I rooted for them to overtake Quark. Now they're just gouging.

 

[Breaking Good]

i can't help feeling sorry for people who need features that are not in the iWork apps and therefore need Microsoft still.
7 bucks a month is a steep price to pay for the rest of your lives.

How much are you paying to stream music?

If you say nothing, well then OK. But if you are willing to pay $9 or $15 a month the rest of your life to access the songs you like, $7 a month for your productivity software doesn't seem so bad.

Once you listen to a song once, how much does it change?

Microsoft will be continually improving on Office.

You can buy an Office 365 annual subscription for about $75 from Amazon. That brings it to $6.25 a month. And the subscription includes 1 TB of storage on OneDrive.

How much does Apple charge for 1 TB of storage?

 

[Tiger8]

So, Microsoft are trying to force me on to the 'Pay us whatever we demand, for the rest of your life, or your files stop working' model.

There's no way I'm ever going to do that, either sell me the software or do without my money.

Your files will always work, Remember, Office set the standards and the rest followed.

You can edit your files with the iThingies freebie, but for those who actually need advanced features, $7 a month is not a bad price at all.

 

[6836838]

I totally agree, I've been using it since beta 1 as my main office when possible, it was not ready on the latest beta, maybe they've done a lot of work to it!

Nope mail merge still very broken.

 

[6836838]

i can't help feeling sorry for people who need features that are not in the iWork apps and therefore need Microsoft still.
7 bucks a month is a steep price to pay for the rest of your lives.

How are pivot tables working out for you in Numbers? You clearly don't work in Finance.

 

[easy4lif]

Renting software, no thanks!

 

[Suckfest 9001]

After running the betas on Yosemite, this software is in no way shape or form ready for prime time...

Well good thing the public release isn't the same build

 

[6836838]

I'll stick with Pages as this asks for subscription fee... They are trying to milk out as much as they can.

Good luck with that. Us power users will stick with Office.

 

[umzyi]

The version still has the very nasty bug where while working in MS word, the document would turn yellow, text would disappear and the whole thing will crash. Like this:

 

[LiE_]

Need Skype for Business mac version please....

 

[AppleInLVX]

Should be clearer in the article that this is for Office 365 users only at this point.

I suppose I'd be naive to think that this might be offered for sale as a standalone download to own rather than rent anytime in the future?

 

[Aragornii]

So for those of us on the beta can we keep using it or will it be disabled?

 

[xgman]

So for those of us on the beta can we keep using it or will it be disabled?

It will time out.

 

[Razeus]

The best productivity software on the planet. iWork, nor Google Docs compares. Looks beautiful with their "material design" aesthetic.

 

[riffcat]

Going to hold back before pulling the trigger, to see what the general view of things is.

Currently running Office 2010 off Win 7 in Parallels, so works well enough – but cannot get MS Outlook setup with my enterprise account, possibly due to it being run virtual.

If the new Mac 2016 is good, will take the plunge.

You can connect office 2010 exchange/office365 servers but you need to apply all/needed the service packs.

 

[seong]

Good luck with that. Us power users will stick with Office.

Haha you are one of those people who think they are superior than the others just because of the paid software they use, huh?

 

[JeffyTheQuik]

Wow, awesome. Now to see if they add to the Microsoft HUP we have at work.

Same here! I love $10 Office Suites!

 

[blahblah100]

After running the betas on Yosemite, this software is in no way shape or form ready for prime time...

If you are running Yosemite, you should be used to software that is no way shape or form ready for prime time...

 

[tuqqer]

I may never understand how people could choose to pay a monthly fee for the use of software. For like what, 10 years? 15? Every time I see this, I think people are having the wool pulled over their eyes. It's like those people who rent furniture. "Only $9.98 a month for this couch? Heck yeah, I'll take it!"

 

[cwedl]

The version still has the very nasty bug where while working in MS word, the document would turn yellow, text would disappear and the whole thing will crash. Like this:

Yes I get that too, though it improved since the last beta, the worse bug for me, I have more than one word document open, open another and it crashes! Lost hours of work because of this.

 

[JeffyTheQuik]

Office 2016 for Mac is available for all Office 365 subscribers users beginning today, and is officially supported on machines running the latest version of OS X, Yosemite. Office for Mac will also be available as a one-time purchase in September.

Should be clearer in the article that this is for Office 365 users only at this point.

I'll stick with Pages as this asks for subscription fee... They are trying to milk out as much as they can.

$7 per month forever indentured servitude? No thanks MSFT.

Here's to hoping the release an actual standalone version without the 365 account. Subscriptions based software is awful.

Is that clear enough?

 

[Breaking Good]

I suppose I'd be naive to think that this might be offered for sale as a standalone download to own rather than rent anytime in the future?

You probably will be able to at some point. But why? You can buy a three year subscription for less than Microsoft charges for a stand-alone copy of Office.

I think Microsoft is going to move to a model (forced there by Apple), where they charge the OEM a fee for Windows and then all future updates of Windows are free to the end user.

I say this because I think Microsoft realizes that technological changes will eventually force people to upgrade hardware and that they [Microsoft] have more to gain by getting people to adopt the most recent operating system (i.e., the way Apple does with OS X and iOS).

 

[JeffyTheQuik]

I suppose I'd be naive to think that this might be offered for sale as a standalone download to own rather than rent anytime in the future?

In September. It's towards the bottom of the article.

Technically, you always rent software. You never actually "own" it, because when you read the license, ownership belongs to the writer of the software, subject to a multitude of conditions, and they allow you to use it on your computer for the cost of "purchase".

It's essentially an up-front forever rental vs. a month-to-month rental.

 

[5354]

Still hardly comparable to the Windows version.

The search function on Excel is crap on Mac. ):

 

[Belmont31R]

Every MS Office thread is filled with people that still don't understand it will be available as normal with a single license purchase. You just don't get the 'extras' that Office 365 offers. Im just amazed people still whine about an optional subscription service when the normal single license will also be available.