Office 2016 for Mac Now Available as One-Time $150 Purchase

[polaris20]

Actually, if you look at a lot of Startups today (including where I work), they all use Google Apps. How do I know this? Because we partner with a lot of other ones and we all share docs, etc.

Why do you think MS came out with Subscription model and 365? Google was already doing that, and startups went to google instead of the old legacy systems that is Microsoft Office.

And, let me add this to be more clear:
I am referring to Google Apps for Work.

It still doesn't answer my question of 95%. With the industries I work with (Legal, Engineering, Banking, Real Estate) none could be done with Google Apps for Work. It's simply not possible.

95% is hyperbole. It's like saying "50% of businesses don't even need a computer. Everything can be done with paper and calculators". While that can be true, and I know of at least one retail mom/pop business that does just that, it's not 50% of businesses.

 

[You are the One]

I have the Office365 2016 version and haven't really used it much for work yet. As soon as I start to work with a number of documents in Word, PP and Excel things start to crash and hang. I'll go back to 2011 for work. Still have that.

Word in 2011 56 MB
Word in 2016 1,73 GB

Thats a big difference.

 

[jblagden]

I have the Office365 2016 version and haven't really used it much for work yet. As soon as I start to work with a number of documents in Word, PP and Excel things start to crash and hang. I'll go back to 2011 for work. Still have that.

Word in 2011 56 MB
Word in 2016 1,73 GB

Thats a big difference.

Is it possible that Office 2016 requires more RAM?

How much RAM does your Mac have?

 

[You are the One]

Is it possible that Office 2016 requires more RAM?

How much RAM does your Mac have?

8, should be enough.

 

[pmwybo]

if you are still running Yosemite, i've got the exact same issue. Excel crashes several times every day and i've got a 2014 rMBP with 8Gb RAM. Luckily i've still got the 2011 disk

 

[jblagden]

Is it possible that Office 2016 requires more RAM?

How much RAM does your Mac have?

Are you running Microsoft Office in Yosemite or El Capitan?

 

[polaris20]

Running Office 2016 in El Cap, works fine. No crashing whatsoever.

 

[ksuyen]

I use Page and save it as Word format. Easy. Free.

 

[jblagden]

I use Page and save it as Word format. Easy. Free.

That's what I've been doing for the past few years. The only problem with doing that is that the Word version won't look exactly the same as the Pages version. For example, a space or an indent might lost or added, or a picture might be moved. Lately, I've been using TextEdit and LibreOffice whenever I need to create a Word document. I'm not sure if LibreOffice's formatting sticks when a document created with it is viewed in Word, but it's more likely to because it can actually work with Word format natively.

 

[jblagden]

Or, cares about privacy. If you care about your personal information staying personal MS is not for your. Read the EULA, if you are ok with giving MS (as well as their "partners" and advertising companies they sell _your_ information to) full access to ALL your information you are fine.

As long as you don’t use OneDrive or any other cloud service for storage of sensitive documents, you should be fine. I’m a big fan of local storage. I keep some notes in Dropbox, but that’s about it.

 

[jblagden]

I use Page and save it as Word format. Easy. Free.

Yeah, but you often lose formatting, which is absolutely unacceptableif a teacher will take off points for something being indented further than it should be or something like that. If you’re not going to buy Office, you should at least use LibreOffice or OpenOffice. LibreOffice lags when scrolling through long documents which have images, but otherwise it’s pretty good for a free office suite.

 

[MacBH928]

Yeah, but you often lose formatting, which for is absolutely if a teacher will take off points for something being indented further than it should be or something like that.

Why not save it in PDF? that works with everything, and teachers shouldn't need a Word copy as PDF will work better for compatibility.

 

[jblagden]

Why not save it in PDF? that works with everything, and teachers shouldn't need a Word copy as PDF will work better for compatibility.

Some teachers require Word format.

 

[allpar]

Word 2011 is still IMHO the one to have IF you can keep running it. Relatively lean, relatively fast, relatively bug free, and free if you paid for it. At some point one invariably runs into someone who needs a file in Word or Excel or Powerpoint and nothing else. If you run VMWare or Parallels or VirtualBox you can also use the Windows version if those times are rare for you. Or run an older Word, e.g. 2008, in OS X 10.6 under VMWare.

 

[MacBH928]

Word 2011 is still IMHO the one to have IF you can keep running it. Relatively lean, relatively fast, relatively bug free, and free if you paid for it. At some point one invariably runs into someone who needs a file in Word or Excel or Powerpoint and nothing else. If you run VMWare or Parallels or VirtualBox you can also use the Windows version if those times are rare for you. Or run an older Word, e.g. 2008, in OS X 10.6 under VMWare.

Whats wrong with using the OneDrive version? Its free

 

[MacBH928]

Word 2011 is still IMHO the one to have IF you can keep running it. Relatively lean, relatively fast, relatively bug free, and free if you paid for it. At some point one invariably runs into someone who needs a file in Word or Excel or Powerpoint and nothing else. If you run VMWare or Parallels or VirtualBox you can also use the Windows version if those times are rare for you. Or run an older Word, e.g. 2008, in OS X 10.6 under VMWare.

Whats wrong with using the OneDrive version? Its free

 

[jblagden]

Whats wrong with using the OneDrive version? Its free

With documents, you’ve got to be careful about cloud storage due to the possibility that your cloud storage provider might get hacked. Suppose you had an unprotected Quicken file stored in the cloud. Or maybe your company’s finance report. Or any other sensitive documents that you don’t want in the wrong hands. This is one of the reasons why I’m a big proponent of local (offline) storage.

 

[You are the One]

With documents, you’ve got to be careful about cloud storage due to the possibility that your cloud storage provider might get hacked

Another scenario is that the EULA, of the cloud provider discussed, says in clear text that you allow the service provider access to ALL your (or your company's) data.

If you are cool with that, a cheaper alternative and at least as private is to use pastebin or similar to store your information. Someone is going to make money out of your private information in both cases.

If you are not cool with that, put the information somewhere where it is not intended to be used for capitalisation since the beginning of the design of the business model for the service (eg. not in Win/Office/Sharpoint/Skype/OneDrive etc...)

 

[jblagden]

Another scenario is that the EULA, of the cloud provider discussed, says in clear text that you allow the service provider access to ALL your (or your company's) data.

If you are cool with that, a cheaper alternative and at least as private is to use pastebin or similar to store your information. Someone is going to make money out of your private information in both cases.

If you are not cool with that, put the information somewhere where it is not intended to be used for capitalisation since the beginning of the design of the business model for the service (eg. not in Win/Office/Sharpoint/Skype/OneDrive etc...)

But those services aren't invulnerable to hackers. That still doesn't solve the security issue.