So did I! Looking at the article author, he's a senior editor at MR and has extensive experience. Bizarre, indeed.
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Microsoft Releases Office for Mac Update With Full Apple Silicon Support in Excel
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He’s probably been spending too much time on Reddit with all the “OG HomePod” muppets. 😉
Thank you! (Now I think I remember that but had totally forgotten.) So all my Microsoft apps are Silicon except the 1974-looking disaster that is Teams.
“Universal” means the application package has both Apple Silicon and Intel binaries. Most Apple silicon compatible apps are Universal but a few (like VLC) are distributed specifically as “Apple Silicon”.
Haha yup. I think everyone does (who knows they can).
Interesting - after the latest update to Excel, Word and Outlook today, I'm now on version 16.57..... perhaps it's a different version for the UK against the US.
Teams is an Electron / "progressive web application", so it's not even macOS native on Intel / x86. The client application could be native, but in terms of how the application functions, it's basically a glorified web browser. All of the content you see in Teams like calls, chats, files, etc are all technically [X]HTML structured content served from an Angular application.
Sadly, it's very unlikely that we'll see a native version of Teams at all, even on Windows.
16.57 here as well (Germany) but I had to do a "new" installation with the installer over the existing one to update, the updater kept telling me to "try again later"
I just fired up Word and Outlook to confirm and they are both using the Apple chip.
I was thinking of doing that. But it syncs work data on my personal device and I deal with some sensitive data I don’t want on it.
Let’s see, you’re using an ancient and riddled with security issues version of Office and a version of macOS that is now three generations behind. Okay, whatever floats your boat, but don’t make it public so people can scratch their heads and wonder about you.
Still doesn't allow access to the ribbon with alt shortcuts, so unfortunately parallels will have to do for now. I wish they didn't hamstring their Mac version of Excel.
I’m confused. Office 2010 was for Windows, for Mac we had Office 2008 and Office 2011. But both of these were only released in a 32-bit version, so you must also still be using Mojave?…
I'm wondering if VBA is native. We got my daughter a new MacBook Pro recently and I used it to test one of my Excel forecasting models that uses VBA for some calculations and Monte Carlo simulation. It was about 10X slower than running it on my 2017 i5 iMac. Needless to say, I'm not going to be moving to AS until that problem is addressed.
Not actually part of Office, but Teams is still Intel and it's nearly the last thing I use that still is.