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New Version of Microsoft Office for Mac Slated for 2014 Release

I am no fan of Office, but unfortunately, my company is a Microsoft-centric company, so even on my Mac, I keep a copy of Office just for compatibility purposes. I'd love to just go with iWork, but it's not going to happen any time soon.
 
Just make the apps available through the MAS and price then nicely.

My bet is that Excel will become very popular, Word not so, and PowerPoint will cease to exist. ;)
And, oh yeah.. make Outlook free.
 
MacsRgr8 said:
Just make the apps available through the MAS and price then nicely.

My bet is that Excel will become very popular, Word not so, and PowerPoint will cease to exist. ;)
And, oh yeah.. make Outlook free.
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Why would they put them in the MAS? Not about nobody wanting Word or PowerPoint, but why would they give up 30% of the money they're getting from Office sales?

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rwilliams said:
I am no fan of Office, but unfortunately, my company is a Microsoft-centric company, so even on my Mac, I keep a copy of Office just for compatibility purposes. I'd love to just go with iWork, but it's not going to happen any time soon.
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That makes sense to me.

Sometimes we have to use products we don't like.
 
matamoris said:
Try Outline from the MAS. It's not perfect, but it is the best ON alternative on the Mac. Good enough that I don't need to fire up Windows/Parallels anymore.
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Wow, can't believe I've never seen that app. I'll check it out and probably stop using OneNote in VMWare. :D
 
i hope it would be as good as Office 2013 for Windows....i mean come on I can't even resize a damn photo in Outlook, or insert a shape...?!? I can't believe how pathetic Office for Mac is compared to Windows.

those of you who ditched it...well it's just impossible in my line of work (corporate finance/IT). while 50% of our employees (60k employee fortune 100 company) use Mac, we still heavily rely on Office. Exchange works the best w/ Outlook. iCal exchange sync is pathetic even with 3rd party workaround. There is no webex plug in for Mac Outlook. It won't handle Excel files Oracle generates. There are so many problems. And no, I can't use Page as it won't handle my 200mb files with macro and server-side data pull....
 
drewyboy said:
I always hear people say this, but anytime I've encountered it... I say the "You're using it wrong." Actually, it's "You're using the wrong program". Often from the use cases I've seen where excel is used for "business use" is when it's being used wrong. Too many times do I usually see it being used as a "database". Just use a freak'n database then!

Sorry for the rant, but that's my personal experience. Excel is being used wrong. Excel is for spreadsheets, not database management.
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Excel works very well as a simple database management application. It's quick and easy to manipulate data and information. Designing a database using Access or FileMaker takes a heck of a lot of up front work that is not needed or faster to do in Excel. I agree that it also does a great job when used as a spreadsheet application.
 
rwilliams said:
Like Outlook. And SharePoint. There are not enough words in the English language to properly convey how much I despise those two applications.
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SharePoint... the application developed by Satan on drugs. It is well beyond "despise", even beyond gut-wrenching hate.
 
I did not really touch MS office for many almost four years since I left my last job. I am still sit in front of computer most time when I am awake.
 
As long as they update Outlook to be more like the full fat version on windows, i'll be happy, word, excel etc i can pass on any day, outlook on the other hand is the killer app in the bundle.
 
Sky Blue said:
Hope the Mac version has some basic feature parity with the Windows version of Outlook this time.

Also, support for 10.9 features (Notification Center etc.)
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Agree, and hope they actually incorporate useful new features of the Mac OS X releases starting with 10.10. They were soooo slow to incorporate basic features like fullscreen,took forever to make the suite compatible with retina displays, and just flat out ignored everything else.
 
Michael Goff said:
Seems like neither company can make a UI that actually fits in with the other company's OS these days. They're not alone, either, Google is joining that wonderful game.
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Yeah... Safari on Windows is quite vomit-worthy. QuickTime is just... an abomination (not that I would use it in Windows to view videos anyway, but a lot of apps require it to be installed).


BasicGreatGuy said:
I don't see that happening, although it would be great. Too bad the two can't get together to create it.
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I don't either, sadly.
 
\-V-/ said:
Yeah... Safari on Windows is quite vomit-worthy. QuickTime is just... an abomination (not that I would use it in Windows to view videos anyway, but a lot of apps require it to be installed).



I don't either, sadly.
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Those are examples of programs that couldn't even run well.
 
I use Excel and Visio all the time. I've not found a good viable alternative to Excel and Visio is the standard for process mapping (although not technically part of the Office bundle).
 
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