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New Version of Outlook for Mac Leaked in Screenshots, Release Date Still Unclear
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I was expecting Microsoft to release updates for their Apps on Mac for Yosemite. Their Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint userbase is pretty big on Mac despite Apple having their own iWork suite that is not really too attractive to everyone.
With me using both Windows and Mac, one for work and one for personal/work use I have to use Microsoft for that reason.
If they have an update coming for Outlook, I guess Word and the others will get updates soon too.
With me using both Windows and Mac, one for work and one for personal/work use I have to use Microsoft for that reason.
If they have an update coming for Outlook, I guess Word and the others will get updates soon too.
I'm curious as to what is broken? In my consulting job I have many dozens of macs using exchange/samba today in a mix of 10.8, 10.9, and 10.10 across different clients.
Some of them are actually bound directly to AD, and others are standalone and just using share/file permissions.
In fact my own workstation is running 10.10 right now bound to both Server 2008r2 and 2012 file servers without a problem. I also have Mail bound to an Office365 Enterprise plan and an exchange 2010sp3 server without issue.
Overall my environments are much more stable today than they were 4 or 5 years ago. It's all working reasonably well.
Karl P
Thanks, I work for "corporate america" so I was going to get it via microsoft home use program. Its typically about $10 but you can only use it once. So I'm debating should I wait and use it when it updates? But then again its a new mac mini and so forgive me for saying i'm TIRED OF WAITING haha
Because it includes every feature one may ever need to use, no matter the specific user.
Apple's philosophy of simplifying its productivity suite makes its basically unusable in the workplace.
Somewhat random question, but for those of you with Office 2011 and a Retina MBP, does the opening splash screen, update screen and scroll icon in the menu bar have terrible (non-Retina) resolution?
I vaguely recall installing an update to address Retina compatibility, and it never applied to all elements within Office. I'm using Microsoft Word as a reference.
It's all minor cosmetic stuff, but it puts my OCD into overdrive.
I vaguely recall installing an update to address Retina compatibility, and it never applied to all elements within Office. I'm using Microsoft Word as a reference.
It's all minor cosmetic stuff, but it puts my OCD into overdrive.
Why not? Do you have reason to believe this a long way off or may not ever happen?
It'd be really great if Visio were an option. But we know that won't happen
OmniGraffle is good though - and much less expensive.
Can't wait for this new version of Office 2015 on the Mac. 2004 was baaaaad, 2008 was baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad, 2011 is somewhat okay, but I have huge expectations for 2015. I couldn't care less about Pages and Numbers, it's nothing close to being "power users" apps.
Entirely disagree. Apple may simplify products, but that does not make it unusable in the workplace or any where close to that extreme. More often than not, they move what are considered power features out of the main line of sight, sometimes in ways that the majority of people aren't familiar with.
Dumping it all in ribbons and strange windows with buttons different sizes and seemingly randomly placed content was never a user friendly move and I still can't believe they continued with this philosophy. They're capable of decent-to-amazing designs and I think within the OS X design realm they could kick some ass. I also think "it does a lot" is a simple cop out for the time and effort it takes to mold the stuff correctly into a product like this. I'm sadden to see a modern UI that looks like this and was hoping for more from them when the time came.
HOWEVER, before I end, I should say that Apple has made their own failures with the most recent edition of iWork. It needed help, got a little, and still needs some feature wise. Just two entirely different design philosophies at play.
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I remember the last time Microsoft developed Outlook for the Mac ... and then they didn't. Microsoft has never been committed to Outlook for the Mac, and I seriously doubt that it ever will be. I expect this to make it to version 2.0 before they pull the plug ... again.
I remember the last time Microsoft developed Outlook for the Mac ... and then they didn't. Microsoft has never been committed to Outlook for the Mac, and I seriously doubt that it ever will be. I expect this to make it to version 2.0 before they pull the plug ... again.
Oh good, but then it's tempting to get an Office 360 sub seeing as today Microsoft have announced it will also now include unlimited Onedrive storage space! Now that's value.
PLEASE MICROSOFT, I will give you my left nut if you make Lync for Mac at least somewhat functional. The piece of steaming **** known as Lync for Mac right now is almost unusable. I've never used an app this unstable...not even beta or alpha trials!
I have to agree. I am praying for a true update to something comparable with the functionality and ease of use in the Windows versions. (Identical layout would also be good... come on, even adobe manage that!) I just don't see any real difference in the graphics above vs the current Office for Mac version... is just been flattened and made to look "odd" with Chinese characters.
I use a good proportion of the functions in MS Word (windows) on a daily basis. The windows version is not nice to use in parallels, but its generations ahead of the castrated stone-age excuse of program served up by MS in the Mac Version. Outlook and Excel are similarly ghastly. As for alternatives, there are no serious alternatives to Word for those preparing lots and lots of large documents, with complex formatting, and detailed style sheets, all in collaborative groups and delivering within highly regulated industries.
May be this time Microsoft would finally deliver a "real" Office for Mac. It would be a first!
This is exactly what I do too and the reason for it. I've tried converting to Numbers, but the lack of pivot tables for me is an easy deal breaker. Excel Mac is such a letdown too that I end up mostly using Excel on a VM.
Lync is a bit of a sore spot, I'll grant you that, but I have figured out how to (mostly) stabilize it for my uses.
Lync seems to get really crashy when you move environments. This is particularly true if you change A/V devices.
I have an rMPB that goes from being docked to a thunderbolt monitor and external headset to onboard only, to wired headset and back again - so I see the worst of it.
My workflow now looks like this: Once I get situated in a new environment (network, cameras, audio, whatever) I go ahead and go to lync preferences and verify everything is correctly selected. I then close prefs, and quit the program. Reopen and use as normal. It is stable 90%+ of the time when I do this.
Don't get me wrong, it's atrocious and needs fixing, but if you need to use it (as I do) then following those steps will take the experience from "torture chamber" to merely "highly annoying".
Karl P
I could stand a new version of Office for sure, but have never used Outlook, I find Mail much more intuitive.
It'd be really great if Visio were an option. But we know that won't happen
since i use omnigraffle - and everything i create using it looks 100x better than the same stuff done in visio - i hardly miss it. it even can import visio files.
I just want a full, native version of Outlook on the iPadwithout the need for the 365 subscriptionwhich I can use with my company. We already pay a lot for exchange enterprise licenses, servers, people to support.
And a full screen Mac version of outlook would be great too.
And a full screen Mac version of outlook would be great too.