Doesn't affect Office 365 yet. It's a preview with the release version later this year. Office 365 will always feature the latest released version.
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Microsoft Updates Office 2016 for Mac Preview with Updated Look and New Features
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I just wish they would get a move on and finish/release the darn thing. Five years is a ridiculously long time to wait for a software update, especially when you're paying for it every month with a 365 subscription. I don't think Apple have any intention of upgrading iWork to make it a serious alternative Office.
Headline should read: "Microsoft Updates Office for Mac many years too late".
Mail, Pages and Numbers may not suit power users, but they'll do for me and will hopefully only get better with time. Thank you Apple - and goodbye Microsoft.
Mail, Pages and Numbers may not suit power users, but they'll do for me and will hopefully only get better with time. Thank you Apple - and goodbye Microsoft.
They are working on a new Skype for Business Mac client but not until 2016, until then they are promising quarterly updates to Lync 2011 but I doubt they will add any new features.
The Skype for Business mobile apps are not coming until later this year either.
I like the MS has put in both options... I can see people preferring either of them (I prefer the grey, but I'd bet my wife will prefer the blue/colored)
They want people to be able to use essentially the same Microsoft Office across all platforms. Kind of hard to do when concerned with UI elements in different operating systems. Since the app can be full screen now, I don't think it matters as much anymore.
I have iworks, open office and MS office 2011 at home. I almost always use iworks and my wife ALWAYS uses MS office. We have a divided home. I agree that I wish Apple would just step up and make iworks an MS killer once and for all.
Downloading it right now on my test MacBook Pro at work. Does anyone know if they have made improvements to public folders and handling PST files in Outlook?
Don't get me wrong, I agree. I've hit many roadblocks with the new Pages as well. But it's a free product and for many casual users it will be more than enough. I know tons of students who bought Microsoft Office because there wasn't another option. Now they're simply using Pages, Keynote and Numbers for free.
Another reason is here in the Netherlands we can't get student deals on Microsoft Office as a purchase anymore. Instead of paying € 25 once, you're now forced to pay the same amount on a yearly basis for Office 360. Many just aren't willing to do that.
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Full compatibility with the iOS apps. And probably easier to maintain both when they're so similar.
And I prefer when the app looks consistent across different OS's.
Po-tay-to
Po-ta-to
Kudos to MS for giving us both options in preferences.
I had been using this and originally found lots of lag along with terrible scrolling and zooming. I logged a number of different tickets in the Word preview, chief among them erratic scrolling and a lack of discrete '+' and '-' buttons for zooming in bottom right.
Nice to see they added the zoom buttons, but I can say that they improved the scrolling in some sort of hotfix prior to this most recent update. However, it still had room for improvement so I am looking forward to checking it out later.
Cool caret? Screenshot please?
Nice to see they added the zoom buttons, but I can say that they improved the scrolling in some sort of hotfix prior to this most recent update. However, it still had room for improvement so I am looking forward to checking it out later.
Cool caret? Screenshot please?
Ugh, ill be staying with the last version off office for Mac. It was the last usable office that was produced before that horribly, productivity destroying ribbon was dreamed up by the evil people who bring hatred and pain and suffering to the world from the Microsoft UI department
Anyone else having a problem with completing the updates? I keep getting 'there was a problem with the downloaded file. Try again later' message.
While new to the Mac, this is anything but a new feature. I've been longing for this on the Mac side for many many years. Glad to see they're coming around.
I just want it to look and work like it does on Windows.
When I Google how to do something in Office, and the "answers" list menu options I don't have or buttons on the ribbon that I don't have, or other things that don't exist in the product, it makes things hard.
Product A, made by Team A. It looks and works a certain way. It gets Name A.
Product B, made by Team B. It looks different and works a different way, but also gets Name A.
Calling a bunch of programs made by a bunch of different people that work a bunch of different ways all the same Office names is stupid.
Entourage was junk, but it at least had its own name. Then they changed its name to Outlook. Does it work like Outlook? NO. They just changed the word "Entourage" to the word "Outlook" in the program. It still works like Entourage. It doesn't work like Outlook.
When I Google how to do something in Office, and the "answers" list menu options I don't have or buttons on the ribbon that I don't have, or other things that don't exist in the product, it makes things hard.
Product A, made by Team A. It looks and works a certain way. It gets Name A.
Product B, made by Team B. It looks different and works a different way, but also gets Name A.
Calling a bunch of programs made by a bunch of different people that work a bunch of different ways all the same Office names is stupid.
Entourage was junk, but it at least had its own name. Then they changed its name to Outlook. Does it work like Outlook? NO. They just changed the word "Entourage" to the word "Outlook" in the program. It still works like Entourage. It doesn't work like Outlook.
not the way it looks but the motion https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYk4ES5Y4H4 ironically this video is misstated, its on purpose.
Would you say FCP X follows the standards of and looks and feels like the OS?
Apart from Apple being pretty inconsistent and increasingly unclear and flippant, apps with lots of features really have to abandon a simple OS-like interface (such as Preview app for instance) and find the best way to organise and present those functions to the user. This necessitates a departure from the OS standards to make a better app in certain instances.
Apple has never really had an entirely uniform, consistent and clear UI and bundled apps. In its latest incarnation it used translucency in strangely selective ways (such as sidebars) where it didn't really even enhance anything or provide anything useful.
Like it's apps, Apple's UI direction seems increasingly driven by fad rather than than thought and purpose. In some ways Windows 8.1 looks better than OS X now.
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The official word is that Lync will never see another version, and Skype for Business will be the replacement. (Microsoft owns Skype.)
Has anyone checked whether Outlook finally supports Exchange Activesync in the new version? So far there is still nothing on the Mac that allows syncing Outlook.com contacts/calendars, which seems like a strange oversight on Microsoft's part ...
Also, it would be much appreciated by many if it could directly work with .pst files (as opposed to just importing them, which is a one-way street).
Also, it would be much appreciated by many if it could directly work with .pst files (as opposed to just importing them, which is a one-way street).