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Office for Mac 2011 Launches October 26th
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Office 2011 allows you to de-ribbon-ify the interface if you are so inclined (and I am)...Anyone else just hate the "ribbon" toolbars that you find in every Microsoft application nowadays? (Edit: Apparently, yes.) It takes way too many clicks to get what you want, and there is so much change happening in that small space... I just don't like the interface at all. It takes too much time getting used to, if I ever do.
I won't upgrade simply because I hate the "ribbon" toolbars.
I made the switch to iWork a couple years ago. MS Office was good, but I didn't need the special features, and I find iWork to be quicker and easier to work with. I've always liked Outlook over Mail, but Mail works fine for what it is.
I too hate the ribbon toolbars but I know several people that love them. I just prefer a standard menu + tool tips
I too hate the ribbon toolbars but I know several people that love them. I just prefer a standard menu + tool tips
Oh my god, I've used office 2011 beta for quite some time now and it looks really promising. But this video, it sucks big time! The guy on the right with the mustache looks as though he was transported there from the mid nineties, and he speaks even stiffer. The guy on the left tries so hard to speak cool about his new product, but somehow it's not very convincing even though I know he's right about some things.
Another thing i noticed was that the transition between pages in full screen mode seemed to be rather jumpy. Not a good thing if you want to promote the speed and light feeling of the product.
The last sentence is a rather good one though.
Another thing i noticed was that the transition between pages in full screen mode seemed to be rather jumpy. Not a good thing if you want to promote the speed and light feeling of the product.
The last sentence is a rather good one though.
Then it is about as much benefit to me as Entourage was.
I guess it would be crazy to believe that 2 Microsoft products would talk to each other.
Also, it would be really confusing for them to just show a dialog box that states, not compatible with prior versions of Exchange before 2007.
So instead of getting the holy grail of mail clients to use on my Mac at work, I get a bloated version of OS X Mail.
They're supporting the current product (Exchange 2010) and the previous one (2007), sounds pretty sane to me.
Hope they fix a lot of bugs. Sometimes I can't even send or receive messages... Sigh hope they fix messenger up
Nothing wrong with it at all. Its just like Apple dropping Tiger support. Exchange 2003 is old and MS is moving on.
If you're interested check out OpenOffice.org. It's all I've had installed on my machine for the last couple of years as far as office suites go. I just tweak the preferences to automatically save in XLS or DOC format and then pretend I have MS Office - for free. Compatibility is very near 100% from my experience.
Entourage - WebDAV
Entourage for Web Services - Web Services
Outlook 2011 - Web Services
Outlook 2003 - MAPI
Outlook 2007 - MAPI
Outlook 2010 - MAPI with some Web Services
I feel dirty even saying Outlook 2011 - cause it's not. It's Outourage, slightly more Outlook than previous versions of Entourage, but still very much Entourage.
No Category color syncing
No PST archiving
No PST opening (only importing)
No Side by side calendar view (WTF is this overlay crap)
No Server side rules
I suppose on a plus note, we get complex HTML and my Calendar now resizes with the size of the window.
Adding a delegate with a large mail store still causes the program to lock up for 15 seconds - just like Entourage did.
Huh? Explain? Even if a web site runs MS servers, it's not running on my computer.
I will wait for the next version of iWork to see if it fits my needs before I decide. I've done everything I can to try and stay MS free on my Mac's.
From my understanding there is not a Mac version of OneNote, but I wish there was. That would be the only MS software on my Mac's.
in the studio we all hate ms office apps especially word - simply cos it takes 1-3 mins to open the app. Then if you're lucky it will open most documents relatively quickly till you're thrown massive docs...
its performance on modern macs is almost on par as the previous version running on intel machines under rosetta. so i'd rather wish they pulled a snow leopard trick and refined rather than radically changed their app.
its performance on modern macs is almost on par as the previous version running on intel machines under rosetta. so i'd rather wish they pulled a snow leopard trick and refined rather than radically changed their app.
On this (my) machine Word 2008 takes 7.08 seconds to load to a usable state. I don't know if this qualifies as 'forever' and I used the Clock Pro app on my iPhone to time it, not a real stopwatch.
I'm definitely looking forward to this. As much as I hate Microsoft for everything they've done to the Mac community and in general, I can't deny that Office 2011 is a huge upgrade and a very stable piece of software I might add. I've been using the beta and I love Outlook (there's still some things Mail does better) and Word full screen is better than Pages. The only thing is no matter how good the Final version of Office 2011 is I will never get rid of Pages. Pages is so much better at creating professional documents and brochures for our office.
So I guess having Outlook 2010 on the PC support Exchange 2003 is completely insane, right?
Is that your logic?
What if MS took that support away, do you think there would be a small outrage?
I'm guessing yes.
So expecting the SAME support in their OS X product is not so "out on the ledge".