What about the versions that were installed via the App Store? Mine still says it's version 16.56 and says "Universal" in System Information > Applications.
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Microsoft Releases Office for Mac Update With Full Apple Silicon Support in Excel
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Too bad those release notes are not available in Microsoft AutoUpdate. Apparently, Microsoft thinks that providing update information within the updater is beneath them. Instead, they expect users to blindly install updates without seeing what’s changed.
So you've been out of the slang loop so long that when you looked up OG, you saw yourself an example of OG. Amirite, Old Man??
I've been developing Mac software since before many people here were born. We had a 512x342 black and white screen and were happy about it.
100% agree. Why alienate a massive segment of readers that don't have a clue what OG means? What happened to simple, concise language in reporting.
Attitude and flair are for the comments section.
It's too bad Microsoft neutered the Home Use Program that allowed employees of partnered companies to get Office for super cheap. I got 2004, 2008, 2011, and 2016 for $10 each through my employer. Now the Home Use Program only gets you 30% off a 365 subscription. No thank you! Thankfully Office 2016 still works great on my M1 Macs.
Rumors are inherently classified as “gossip”, but MacRumors editorial should care about elevating their content beyond that. What they should consider is expanding editorials about certain rumors that having multiple conflicting accounts, which I have seen them do recently. The rehashing of stories during a given for clicks and page views has gotten very old as of late.
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At least MR don’t fill their articles with French terms (sans, du jour, raison d'être, raison de rigueur, etc) like some journalists from other English language publications in order to appear sophisticated.
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Excel has been Universal/M1 native for over a year now. The only exception was the Power Query function, which operates as a separate plug-in process. Much like with Photoshop and Intel-only plugins Excel had to be started up in Rosetta mode in order for Power Query to run. With this update Power Query is now fully Universal.
You can run Teams as a PWA app and it runs native. I use it instead of the Mac app and have full functionality.
There is a preview of OneDrive for Apple Silicon. You access it through the About tab in the Preferences for the OneDrive client and can switch to the pre-release build. It’s been working great for me.
It doesn't even have tasks in it yet. It's not fully functional unfortunately. Agree that the search works well. My 14 year PST file is around 100gb and it works really well.
Still chasing Tasks though...
I really miss Apple Works. Anyone remember that?
I don't see it anymore. Looks like Tim Hardwick agreed that he had screwed up and fixed it. Good.
Who is his superior, anyways? There needs to be a responsible editor looking at these stories before they're published. I agree that "OG Rosetta" was extremely poor choice of wording!
Yeah, there's a big thread about that - it had issues with searchability, although I think that is fixed now. I had reverted to the Intel version because of that, but I might take a look and switch if they have fixed that problem.
Yahh well im sticking my 1984 "The Macintosh" - Im happy with notpad.
Now imagine you have spreadsheet with 10.000 rows and 3.000 columns. Are you still going to use Excel?
How in the world are going to apply some maths/statistics on such a large dataset in Excel?
Yeah that's the point, it's the same "core" application across all platforms and browsers as it's pretty much just a glorified website. The "apps" for macOS, Windows, Linux, etc are all basically stripped down web browsers that render the application. The "core" app is still pretty much interpreted code though, so it's not native.
Apparently "Teams 2.0" will ditch Electron for some new Microsoft Edge engine coupled with React, so hopefully that improves the app performance.
I've done some pretty crazy stuff with Excel and large datasets, it handled it well enough for me. When you need to make this kind of thing available for a lot of people (maybe non-technical users), Excel can be a good way of doing it. The automation aspects with VBA are great too, I saved a group of people literally months of work with a couple of hundred lines of VBA. You might be surprised on how much you can do with Excel.
Don't get me wrong, it stressed out some early 2010's computer hardware, but it met all of our expectations. Nowadays I'll end up building building a database and PHP app to query things, but earlier in my career, Excel did great.
Full disclosure: this was on Excel for Windows, I don't rate the macOS version nearly as good.
Pretty sure "universal binary" means it runs natively? I'm on the previous version of excel (16.56) and it shows as a universal binary?