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Office for Mac 2011 Previewed Ahead of Launch Scheduled for Later This Year
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Or you could have simply got the PowerPoint viewer for those occasions, rather than switching to the dark side
Side note: no mention of scripting support though.
If Nadyne from the MS Mac BU is reading this, just want to say thanks for the preview, and I have three words for my hopes with Office Mac 2010:
Compatibility, compatibility, compatibility.
Compatibility, compatibility, compatibility.
One of the arguments that I've used to recommend Macs recently has been the fact that Office for the Mac didn't suffer from the brain-dead UI changes that Microsoft foisted upon Windows users with the 2007 "upgrade". I guess they've gotten around to wrecking the Mac version now too. At least OpenOffice and NeoOffice still work like people expect office apps to work.
I think hell has frozen over. I think Mac users are finally going to get a version of Office that users have been asking for.
Entourage? What the hell was that all about?
Entourage? What the hell was that all about?
Agreed... but, in fairness, slow and fat (obese) are the hallmarks of MS software... just add features, don't optimize unless the software becomes non-funtional and optimization becomes a requirement for release...
Doesnt work for me though. I have to use NHS mail for work email. Its based on an Exchange 2007 platform and works great on my work PC, on an Internet Browser, on my iPhone but on my Macs I have to use entourage. It just hangs on installation in mac mail. It doesn't autodetect it properly and just gets confused. Entourage works perfectly.
On forums some say the latest SL patch has fixed it - but it hasn't for me.
I too switched to iWork (can save/export as M$FT file if needed) and Mail (Exchange IMAP FTW) when Snow Leopard came out. I only use Office: Mac 2008 for work when I really, REALLY need to or for troubleshooting. Our Exchange environment has had nothing but trouble with Entourage, it's a piece of garbage.
I'm curious to see how Outlook for Mac works, if at all. It would really take the heat off of me supporting the Mac users in-house & their issues with Entourage & calendars, contacts & email with Exchange.
I'm curious to see how Outlook for Mac works, if at all. It would really take the heat off of me supporting the Mac users in-house & their issues with Entourage & calendars, contacts & email with Exchange.
I use Pages for anything graphics-related (I'm clueless with Photoshop)... I've made some really nice posters, and it's definitely better than Word for playing with graphics... but for straight-up word processing, Word is definitely the way to go. I hope they speed it up, Office 2008 is still a little laggy, especially when it's left open for a while.
But aren't you at home a lot more the last few days? Sorry, can't resist rubbing it in--we got 2" and you got three feet from the same storm.
I HATE the ribbon with a passion, but Pages interface is just as bizarre, and the tiny gray-on-gray icons are just weird. Numbers--nice if you want to catalog your CDs in a pretty format. Fairly useless for technical work. Excel is the king.
This is actually it for me...I dislike ALL word processors. Word is just the one I hate the least!
I hate Entourage. I am very much looking forward to a new incarnation of Outlook for Mac. Of course, I suspect it won't work on anything earlier than Exchange Server 2007, and my company uses Exchange 2004.
Entourage used to take me into its room at night and...touch me. I don't like to talk about it.
Entourage used to take me into its room at night and...touch me. I don't like to talk about it.
God, I hope not... Keep my data and applications local, please. I have 8 cores and 8GB, plenty of storage and I don't need to edit documents from strange internet cafes.
It looks like all that is changing is the name-- this is using the same web interface as Entourage does. The name-change gambit seems to be confusing enough people though that they might get some sales out of it.
Why can Microsoft not implement their own Exchange protocols in their own products? Absurd.
Just look to Office 2010
To see where Office for Mac 2011 is going, just look at Office 2010, already available as a free beta download for Windows. Someone commented on speed earlier. I've been using it for a few weeks now on my PC and can say with absolute certainly that it loads up faster than any other version of Office I have used before. It's very clean. Although I'm not too familiar with Office for Mac 2008, I'm sure that Office 2010 will be the foundation for Office for Mac 2011.
Check it out if you're dual-booting. Best new feature- Customizable ribbon!
To see where Office for Mac 2011 is going, just look at Office 2010, already available as a free beta download for Windows. Someone commented on speed earlier. I've been using it for a few weeks now on my PC and can say with absolute certainly that it loads up faster than any other version of Office I have used before. It's very clean. Although I'm not too familiar with Office for Mac 2008, I'm sure that Office 2010 will be the foundation for Office for Mac 2011.
Check it out if you're dual-booting. Best new feature- Customizable ribbon!
Oh, and whatever happened to Microsoft Messenger 8? Do we have to wait for the holiday season for THAT too? Hopefully the long wait will mean all will be fully 64-bit and 10.6 optimized!!!
Hopefully the long wait will mean all will be fully 64-bit and 10.6 optimized!!!
Are you sure? Apple added Exchange support to Snow Leopard and Microsoft's new mail program isn't going to change in any way? I'd have thought that would be useful to them.