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Microsoft Touts Co-Authoring, Scheduling Assistant, and Broadcast Slideshow in Office for Mac 2011

SharePoint without Explorer?

How does that work?

Currently, SharePoint's full functionality is not available through any browser other than Explorer.
 
I hope they lower the price to stay competitive. With google docs and tons of free solutions, office is starting to lose it's value.
 
vBa support is back.

Outlook now also stores its information in single file form vs. the old flat database which always freaked out.

64bit support is not included and quite honestly not necessary. Some of the demos I have seen for Excel are incredible.

Also, for people in a Sharepoint environment like I am... its pretty damn impressive!


techapocalypse said:
I hope they lower the price to stay competitive. With google docs and tons of free solutions, office is starting to lose it's value.
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Target audience is Business users.


PseudoRegister said:
How does that work?

Currently, SharePoint's full functionality is not available through any browser other than Explorer.
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Only actions that require the Sharepoint addon (Active X). Things like collab are not dependent on IE. The one feature missing that I would love is the in-browser file browsing support.
 
All of these features are great, but are worthless when the app loads and runs so slow and you have to manage it with that horrible ribbon organization office uses.
 
At least MS is trying. It seems like most Apple software development is now geared toward iOS. MS seems to care more about the Mac platform than Apple does. My copy is already pre-ordered from Amazon.
 
elppa said:
Never mind all that, when are we getting an updated Mac client for Windows Live Mesh (not be confused with Live Mesh or Windows Live Sync).

I had the Live Mesh client on my Mac, but it doesn't appear to work anymore.
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I had the same issue when I upgraded to Snow Leopard. I wonder if it has something to do with the OS upgrade? :confused:
 
daneoni said:
64-bit support yay or nay?
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nay.

Office for Mac 2011 still contains Carbon stuff, so this won't and can't happen, yet.

Although you be bet that the next version will aim towards this as 64 bit is becoming quite important.

Office 2010 is 64 bit compatible.
 
nighty5 said:
nay.

Office for Mac 2011 still contains Carbon stuff, so this won't and can't happen, yet.

Although you be bet that the next version will aim towards this as 64 bit is becoming quite important.

Office 2010 is 64 bit compatible.
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I was told the next version will be 64 bit. I agree with the comment about MS at least trying. Its nice to see someone not forgetting the OSX platform.
 
Sky Blue said:
How about you read about a product before you criticize it? Outlook '11 has .pst support.
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Yes, .pst "support". So it can import .pst files. About time they made it so that it actually used windows pst files, so you could add and remove them on the fly without an import (say, like opening a doc file in Word). And also a shame they only extended pst support to "new" style pst files, and not those created in older versions of Outlook.
 
Good restart

Admitting that I have not used any Microsoft products for the last 10 years, I like what I see.

At the same time I noticed that when Apple dropped "Computer" from their name, much of the company for the last 18 months have spent their time on iOS stuff.

Where is the update for Final Cut, iLife, iWork and yes OSX. 10.6 was a good but minor revision. Even when Aperture was updated, it came closer to iPhoto than anything else. (Faces and Places...really)

If you come out with a 12 core beast, at least have some software that can use 4 of them properly.

I love Apple and own most of their products, privately and for my business, but the last 18 months have been somewhat underwhelming.

Jack
 
Microsoft is still stuck in the past

Fine. It's nice that Microsoft is updating Office for Mac. But what they really need to be doing is working on Office for iPad. I know it might never happen. Microsoft needs to protect their core Windows + Office business because it's all they have going for them. They're in the Windows business, not the software business.
 
thedarkhalf said:
"Because the experience is more dynamic, richer and beautiful, it's become more Mac-Like"

Sooooo.... something static, poor and ugly would be representative of a Microsoft application?
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I noticed that quote too. That's one reason why you won't see these videos in a national television commercial. I can't believe they didn't catch that before publishing the video.

It seems that MS Office for Mac 2011 is going to be a big improvement, but I just can't see locking myself into their file formats again. Right now I use iWork for everything I do for myself that I am going to publish as PDF or Quicktime and if there is a document I need to share, I just use OpenOffice -- it manages to get the job done for those cases and runs on Windows, Linux, and Mac OSX.

I *may* decide to pick up this iteration of MS Office just to have better compatibility opening MS Office docs people send me -- iWork and OpenOffice have a difficult time converting some MS Office documents.
 
hitekalex said:
Riight.. as if people who rely on Office to do real work will all of a sudden start doing it on a silly iPad.
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No but it would be nice to do some of the work, not necessarily the heavy lifting, but being able to have a lite version of office if you will on the iPad would be nice. An official MS supported product would be nice.
 
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