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Microsoft's 365 Mac Apps Gain Native M1 Support

wayne905 said:
I updated my Home 365 account to 16.44, but Outlook looks the same as before...no new look on my end.
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Look in the upper right corner...

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Jeff Flowerday said:
I'm not seeing the new 16.44 Outlook. Seems like it's Word, Excel, Onenote and Powerpoint so far.
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Same thing. In the App Store under Updates, Outlook shows 16.44 and status is "Open" (as opposed to "Update") suggesting it has been installed. However, Outlook is still at 16.43 (have restarted Outlook and rebooted my Mini). Activity Monitor confirms its running as an Intel app. My other Office apps did update. Perhaps 16.44 got pulled from the App Store?

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Will MacOS apps ever become iPadOS apps ?
I’m stuck on iPad Pro 12,9 and have no other computer , but sooner or later i will be needing those Pro apps.
I hope i will not have to trade it to a M1 Mac , because i like it so much , but the functionality is crap.
 
Just updated. OneNote scrolls smoother on large imported PDFs and no beach balling when annotating.

My intel Macs choke while doing the same thing. Simply amazing.
 
Vasilisxd said:
Will MacOS apps ever become iPadOS apps ?
I’m stuck on iPad Pro 12,9 and have no other computer , but sooner or later i will be needing those Pro apps.
I hope i will not have to trade it to a M1 Mac , because i like it so much , but the functionality is crap.
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Many iPadOS apps are reduced-level functionality as compared to the macOS one.

Take Excel, for example. In iPad, there is no way to specify a custom date format, only can choose from one of the pre-set date formats. What’s the reason for that? Only Microsoft knows.
 
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adib said:
Many iPadOS apps are reduced-level functionality as compared to the macOS one.

Take Excel, for example. In iPad, there is no way to specify a custom date format, only can choose from one of the pre-set date formats. What’s the reason for that? Only Microsoft knows.
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Agreed. I tried using iPad Pro for MS Office but simple tasks on Mac version take multiple steps to do on iPad version. iPad is way smoother but functionality still missing.
 
NewUsername said:
PowerPC-Intel took Microsoft two years, Intel-Apple Silicon took one month. :)
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It strikes me that this is why Apple has been giving developers libraries and APIs to write against that are higher-level than something proprietary to another vendor that wasn't ever part of their ARM ISA SoC for computers plan. Why they never cared to support NVIDIA's CUDA, and gave people Metal. Once Apple ported it over, if your codebase is reliant on the contemporary Apple frameworks, you really don't have to do much work. Or so it appears to me -- IANAD(eveloper) :)
 
Sweet! I just need Homebrew and Plex to get nailed down and the rest will be fine on Rosetta. I'm getting some unpredictable performance issues with the Plex beta. I didn't try Homebrew yet, they have an unstable build available.
 
hmmm...isn't this too quick? The Office Suite is a complex software, how come they could do this so quickly? PowerPC->Intel some stuff took years, I think adobe was one of them.

We should congratulate Apple though, as even none-native apps work near native performance. This is an amazing feat.
 
Outlook 16.44 pulled? Only seeing Word, Excel, PP, ON (Mac App Store)
 
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MacBH928 said:
hmmm...isn't this too quick? The Office Suite is a complex software, how come they could do this so quickly? PowerPC->Intel some stuff took years, I think adobe was one of them.

We should congratulate Apple though, as even none-native apps work near native performance. This is an amazing feat.
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  1. Cross-platform support already "baked in" to Office since 2014.
  2. Apple gave Microsoft (as well as Adobe and Parallels) a "head start" before everybody else, as evidenced in the WWDC 2020 keynote demo.
 
KM1 said:
Same thing. In the App Store under Updates, Outlook shows 16.44 and status is "Open" (as opposed to "Update") suggesting it has been installed. However, Outlook is still at 16.43 (have restarted Outlook and rebooted my Mini). Activity Monitor confirms its running as an Intel app. My other Office apps did update. Perhaps 16.44 got pulled from the App Store?

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I downloaded it from the Store also and its prompting me to install Rosetta:

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KM1 said:
Same thing. In the App Store under Updates, Outlook shows 16.44 and status is "Open" (as opposed to "Update") suggesting it has been installed. However, Outlook is still at 16.43 (have restarted Outlook and rebooted my Mini). Activity Monitor confirms its running as an Intel app. My other Office apps did update. Perhaps 16.44 got pulled from the App Store?

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You guys need to be and signed up for fast ring builds.

Microsoft 365 Insider Blog | Microsoft Community Hub

Welcome to the Microsoft 365 Insider blog! Get updates and insights about Microsoft 365 features as they release to...
insider.office.com insider.office.com
 
lots of people here don’t get it it seems

Microsoft 365 Insider Blog | Microsoft Community Hub

Welcome to the Microsoft 365 Insider blog! Get updates and insights about Microsoft 365 features as they release to...
insider.office.com insider.office.com

Read this install office and turn on insider update when you open out there is a toggle switch that allows you to switch between new and old outlook.

you need to enable new outlook
 
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