It may not have been available when you looked. I found it with a search.. the full entry is: "Office Home and Business 2016 for Mac (Go to Office.com/setup to activate) (Mac) - DVD (Multiple Languages)"
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It may not have been available when you looked. I found it with a search.. the full entry is: "Office Home and Business 2016 for Mac (Go to Office.com/setup to activate) (Mac) - DVD (Multiple Languages)"
I have this one and had the one before, this one is leaps and bounds ahead of 2011. I couldn't stand it. I have none of those problems you mention.
...who are you? What are "precious posts"?
I meant that Google Docs is free... and that's about it, in comparison to Office. Google Docs is more in line with the iWork suite, as far as features and functionality.
Lightroom 6 is available as a standalone purchase. Sadly they've seen fit to remove the V5-V6 upgrade option.
My reasoning for being on a subscription model:
1. Office 2016 Home and Business in Indian Rupees would be roughly 16000 Rupees.
2. I am on Business Premium subscription as well as I have my 1 email hosted with them for 5400 per year.
This means I will take 3 years to fully recover the 16000 initial price. In the 4th year, it is possible they release another version. So.. no real point in buying upfront for me, if I would (and I will) like to upgrade to the new version when it comes.
1. Office 2016 Home and Business in Indian Rupees would be roughly 16000 Rupees.
2. I am on Business Premium subscription as well as I have my 1 email hosted with them for 5400 per year.
This means I will take 3 years to fully recover the 16000 initial price. In the 4th year, it is possible they release another version. So.. no real point in buying upfront for me, if I would (and I will) like to upgrade to the new version when it comes.
I am interested, but need some clarification. I use a Macbook Air, iPad Air, & iPhone 6 plus for business. My company still runs PC using excel, power point, & word. When they send me a power point, the format gets messed up when using my iPad. My question is is I use Office 365, will it sync on all my devices and be compatible with my coworkers running PC's?
Honestly, even Numbers is more featured than Sheets, as an Auditor, Excel is my bread and butter. Numbers would at least be passable for some tasks, mention Google Sheets in my office and you will be laughed out of the building.
Yea I actually found an article saying it was releasing at 9am pacific on MSDN. Just downloaded it!! Thanks!!
Microsoft is trying to learn and exercise the mistake that AT&T has been doing for the past 10 years: screwing their customers.
- If I was to buy Office for $150 and don't have outlook... No thanks! I can afford a few hundred dollars more .. .but that's not the point.
- All these other things like Skype... it's not necessary in productivity requirements
- Cloud storage is just another way to "try" and store our documents in their posession and in case they wanted to violate our privacy, they can.
MS has been through several years of poor management and poor decisions... such as decisions to revamp all UIs for office and windows and visio and project... they need to fix this and earn back their customer's trust. The first thing they should do is pricing and reverting the UI as much as possible.
I think making up new "tricking" packages for less price and at the same time lure customers into other lines of business is not a smart thing to do. I don't want to see MS having to lay off 30K employees like HP just did... I want them to be able to compete against Apple fair and square in every step of the way... that's the only way to drive hardware/software/service prices down and benefit all of us consumers.
- If I was to buy Office for $150 and don't have outlook... No thanks! I can afford a few hundred dollars more .. .but that's not the point.
- All these other things like Skype... it's not necessary in productivity requirements
- Cloud storage is just another way to "try" and store our documents in their posession and in case they wanted to violate our privacy, they can.
MS has been through several years of poor management and poor decisions... such as decisions to revamp all UIs for office and windows and visio and project... they need to fix this and earn back their customer's trust. The first thing they should do is pricing and reverting the UI as much as possible.
I think making up new "tricking" packages for less price and at the same time lure customers into other lines of business is not a smart thing to do. I don't want to see MS having to lay off 30K employees like HP just did... I want them to be able to compete against Apple fair and square in every step of the way... that's the only way to drive hardware/software/service prices down and benefit all of us consumers.
Trueness. I've used the Google "word" app to create some fancy postcards and it works just fine. It has the added bonus of being easily accessible on my phone and on computers other than my own. The spreadsheet app is sufficient for what I need it for.
Of course, no one is going to dispute that MS Office has many more advanced features, but neither my job nor my personal life really demands those features of office applications.
Office is really great on Windows, no questions asked (at least for me, I think it's vastly superiors compared to Libre/Google Docs/iWorks), but on Mac? Holy hell.
I bought Office 365 (or rented) and used the 2016 preview on OS X before and encounter constant (!) crashes up to the point that my personal cash management (which unfortunately relies on some excel-functionality) doesn't work anymore. Like, at all. As soon as I change a certain field (which happens to be the current bank statement, btw), Excel freezes and crashes.
The cloud functionality is a privacy nightmare and only allows Microsoft's cloud and Dropbox as source, so owncloud (which I personally use) or any other semi-popular service isn't available. Also, it works like SharePoint - if you happen to "lock" a file (by leaving a desktop version of the file open somewhere), you can't edit it elsewhere (including the web UI). And yep, that's what they call "collaborative features".
...and last but not least, Outlook can't connect to my IMAP (Zoho) anymore w/o any error message. Just tells me it ain't connected.
I bought Office 365 (or rented) and used the 2016 preview on OS X before and encounter constant (!) crashes up to the point that my personal cash management (which unfortunately relies on some excel-functionality) doesn't work anymore. Like, at all. As soon as I change a certain field (which happens to be the current bank statement, btw), Excel freezes and crashes.
The cloud functionality is a privacy nightmare and only allows Microsoft's cloud and Dropbox as source, so owncloud (which I personally use) or any other semi-popular service isn't available. Also, it works like SharePoint - if you happen to "lock" a file (by leaving a desktop version of the file open somewhere), you can't edit it elsewhere (including the web UI). And yep, that's what they call "collaborative features".
...and last but not least, Outlook can't connect to my IMAP (Zoho) anymore w/o any error message. Just tells me it ain't connected.
I've been migrating my office to Open Office with nice results.
Outlook not supporting CardDAV and CalDAV makes it a non starter for my Kerio based office.
Outlook not supporting CardDAV and CalDAV makes it a non starter for my Kerio based office.
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.
Since when? Just finished visiting Adobe Website.
Click the "buy" button for standalone at the bottom of Lightroom page ( if not logged in to Adobe already. It is there).
Switch "I want to buy" in the drop down menu from "Full" to "Upgrade".
Select which version upgrading from
Click "save" button to save those changes.
Price changes to $79. It is still there on the website.
Same thing if go in through Adobe "store"
On an Adobe website page select "Menu" (with the three horizontal, "hamburger" lines ).
Products tab.
The "All Products" button a the bottom of that display.
Scroll down to Lr.
[ now jump to 'Switch "I want to buy" ...' step above. ]
You have to look to see edit option on the buy page, but it is still there. There are no red, flashing neon lights pointing at the upgrade option though.
Please do not mention OpenOffice as a MS Office/Numbers/Google Apps replacement. OpenOffice is abandoned software, please suggest/use LibreOffice instead.
My preference is iWork 09, but I know that I'm on borrowed time with that so I've been migrating my more advanced documents over to LibreOffice (with great success). We now only use MS Office for those documents were compatibility/collaboration is required or for those situations where only Excel will do for spreadsheets.
Between the "Home & Student" products and the "Business" one? No. It is the usage license that is the main difference. Not suppose to use the "Home / Student" version for anything to do with conducting commerce.
Outlook is just along for the ride for the most part.
This is just not so in many cases. Maybe if you are playing around with personal stuff. I occasionally work at home on professional documents and Google's apps are terrible at keeping formatting and being able to collaborate. I like knowing if I generate a document that the people I deal with day in and day out will get and be able to view it exactly as I created it. Most of the time these Google apps just can't handle that. It's the same for Apple's suite of office apps too. You just can't be MS Office. In reality Google doesn't even try.
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I'm so glad to see that subscription services to software isn't really working to the point where companies are having to revert back to sales.