There has never been one, not native one from Microsoft, you can find alternatives though.
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Microsoft Releases Office 2016 for Mac With Updated Versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and More
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There has never been one, not native one from Microsoft, you can find alternatives though.
Stupid Microsoft. The new preview requires an Office 365 subscription. Guess I'll wait until September.
I had no issues at all with the Beta and whatever way anyone looks at it, this is a massive improvement over Office 2011.
It's not feature perfect, but Microsoft will continue to improve and add features with updates.
It's not feature perfect, but Microsoft will continue to improve and add features with updates.
I'm an Apple fan and have been for many years. I've used iWorks, Pages, OpenOffice and everything in between. Microsoft Office is still the best office suite by a long stretch. Please don't feel sorry for those of us that need the extra features that Microsoft gives over iWorks (there's nothing wrong with iWorks, BTW). £7/month is not a killer (albeit it's not cheap) and this upgrade is fantastic. Feels faster than Office 2011, finally up there with the PC version (perhaps better). Doesn't seem buggy to me (or at least, haven't come across bugs so far).
It's easy to slag off Microsoft, but Microsoft Office 2016 sets the new benchmark for Mac Office suites. It's the real deal.
It's easy to slag off Microsoft, but Microsoft Office 2016 sets the new benchmark for Mac Office suites. It's the real deal.
Do not agree.
Right now on Amazon you can get an Office 365 one year family pack for $73.24 (I paid $60 for mine), which works out to $6.10 per month. If the shelf life of this version is 5 years like prior ones, that would mean I would spend $366 over that five years in subscription fees to use it. My wife and my 3 kids all have computers and use Office for work and school. It is FAR cheaper for me to spend that $366 over 5 years than it would be to pay for 5 copies of Office every 5 years. Not to mention it gives all 5 of us unlimited cloud storage.
Microsoft advises you delete 2011 before installing the new version, unless you have a specific reason to keep 2011.
Edited to add: Install time was less than 5 minutes. Word and Excel were slow to open the first time.
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I using it on a corporate exchange server. I guess everyones miles may vary...
For some of us, Office gets us from point A to point B that works well for our needs. We aren't worried about others making fun of the car we are driving, especially when they aren't paying the bills.
Oh. Wow. I missed that one sentence completely somehow. Glad I was wrong about this. Thanks for alerting me.
The previous version Office 2011 stays intact. I currently have both after installing Office 2016 from office365.com
On my 2013 iMac (OS X 10.10.4, 8Gb RAM, 1Tb HDD), Word 2016, v15.11.2, still takes 45 seconds to cold start. Excel takes over 30 seconds. I keep having to remind myself as long as the icon is bouncing it most likely has not crashed and to just wait it out.
You obviously don't realize how powerful or important this software is to some people or you wouldn't call it whatever you called it.
Unfortunately this is a side effect of Microsoft wanting to haul around 1/2 an operating system rather than using the built in technology resulting in what you see with Office on the Mac. Unfortunately I don't see things improving any time soon - I'd like to see the sort of integration and professional demonstrated in Office for Windows to appear on Office for Mac but I wouldn't hold my breath because even as their CEO talks about a 'new vision' their internal corporate culture is 'Windows first, everything else is half assed and half baked".
The subscription isn't bad if Microsoft actually released updates on a regular basis and that the gap between Office for Mac and Office for Windows isn't so large that Office for Mac (in terms of features) is only marginally better than running a free office suite such as LibreOffice or iWorks. I mean, here we are 4 years later and Outlook 2016 still can't fully sync with Microsoft's own consumer outlook.com service where as their Windows version can. Are they really serious about being a service provider and being operating system agnostic or is it nothing more than a giant sham?
Not only bug fixes but basic features; why can't I connect to my @outlook.com account to synchronise my email, contacts and calendaring like I could with the Windows version? why haven't they added CalDAV and CardDAV support so that use Outlook as my complete email needs when using iCloud?
It depends on whether you are upgrading on a regular basis or whether you skip every other release; for me my bigger concerns are the legacy of Microsoft ignoring the Mac platform in 4 year blocks then reluctantly finally releasing a refreshed versions just to keep the Mac fans satisfied (but never happy) and even what is delivered tends to be pretty half baked at best.
Im really baffled how Office 2016 is at least 3 times slower to load any application. Office 2011 screams along with no issues and everything loads instantly. WTF happened?
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At work I take in my Mac, and also daily Remote Desktop in to my work windows laptop. I really really want the mac office to be brilliant.
I've been using the beta since it was released, it is pretty terrible compared to the windows versions. In the latest beta:
When I load Outlook it frequently tells me it has previously crashed and I should restart. It also forgets my password most days for some reason, or requires me to re-enter it because of...reasons. When clicking on an email, it's slow to load a preview. When copying and pasting from other sources, the fonts and styles can get messed up to a point where selecting text and choosing font just doesn't do anything. I don't have this with the windows version.
Excel performance is awful. Opening ANY excel file is slow. Selecting 2000 rows and deleting makes my brand new MacBook Pro with 16GB ram spin the beach ball for 20 seconds. Vlookups and basic formulas take forever to calculate. The text in all sheets seems blurry at all times, never retina. Filtering columns takes ages and just behaves generally weirdly and in unexpected ways. I always have to remote in to my windows machine, to do my work.
Word is slow. I also had a weird bug today a where every second the page would scroll down 1px, and just wouldn't stop, no matter what I did.
I'm very much hoping Office for Mac is going to be equal to the performance on windows some time soon, but right now I would not pay anything for it - as for me in a work environment I basically can't use it for my everyday tasks. It's doesn't just have rough edges, I can't get my work done.
I just wanted to let people know one persons experience, obviously other people haven't had any major issues. I can't wait for the point in the future where it's as good as office on windows, but it's a long way off in the latest beta version.
At work I take in my Mac, and also daily Remote Desktop in to my work windows laptop. I really really want the mac office to be brilliant.
I've been using the beta since it was released, it is pretty terrible compared to the windows versions. In the latest beta:
When I load Outlook it frequently tells me it has previously crashed and I should restart. It also forgets my password most days for some reason, or requires me to re-enter it because of...reasons. When clicking on an email, it's slow to load a preview. When copying and pasting from other sources, the fonts and styles can get messed up to a point where selecting text and choosing font just doesn't do anything. I don't have this with the windows version.
Excel performance is awful. Opening ANY excel file is slow. Selecting 2000 rows and deleting makes my brand new MacBook Pro with 16GB ram spin the beach ball for 20 seconds. Vlookups and basic formulas take forever to calculate. The text in all sheets seems blurry at all times, never retina. Filtering columns takes ages and just behaves generally weirdly and in unexpected ways. I always have to remote in to my windows machine, to do my work.
Word is slow. I also had a weird bug today a where every second the page would scroll down 1px, and just wouldn't stop, no matter what I did.
I'm very much hoping Office for Mac is going to be equal to the performance on windows some time soon, but right now I would not pay anything for it - as for me in a work environment I basically can't use it for my everyday tasks. It's doesn't just have rough edges, I can't get my work done.
I just wanted to let people know one persons experience, obviously other people haven't had any major issues. I can't wait for the point in the future where it's as good as office on windows, but it's a long way off in the latest beta version.