I hope the W10 Office will also be available as a package without subscription. I hate those things. It's a pain to worry about them.
Also, why are they releasing their stuff on Apple's devices before their own? :/ I know that we'll get it with W10, but really, they couldn't hold this off for a month or two? It gives a bad impression.
Mac needed a new version of Office more than Windows did. They've had more recent releases. Additionally, bugs in the Mac OS X version will be less important as it has many fewer users. The Windows version is an important product for Microsoft and it is best to have it thoroughly tested.
It is turning out exactly as we said – sales of Apple's latest cure for cancer have slumped to a shadow of their initial "glory."
While the Tame Apple Press and a big chunk of analysts sung praises for the iWatch, claiming it would sell 70 million in its first year. We pointed out that the gizmo was nearly two years out of date and lacked most of the software which would make it moderately useful and if it succeed it was a triumph of user stupidity and marketing.
Lately analysts have been slowly withdrawing the enthusiastic sales figures they gave the watch, and now a new survey has shown that sales have fallen by 90 per cent.
Apple is selling fewer than 20,000 watches a day in the US since the initial surge in April, and on some days fewer than 10,000. This is not too bad, but it does suggest that most people who wanted an iWatch have one, and existing users are not managing to win many converts amongst their friends to make it take off. For the record to make the 70 million figure apple would have to sell 195,000 a day.
Data collected by Slice Intelligence show that Two-thirds of the watches sold so far have been the lower-profit "Sport" version, whose price starts at $349, according to Slice, rather than the costlier and more advanced models that start at $549. Apple's gold "Edition" model priced at $10,000 or more has only sold 2,000 of them have been sold in the US.
The figures are based on the electronic receipts sent to millions of email addresses following purchases. The company conducts market research on behalf of consumer-goods companies, among others, many of them in the Fortune 500.
All up though these figures are not bad, but they are not the sort of numbers which Apple needs to convince its investors that it can make mega sales any more. With sales drying up in China, Jobs mob will not have a good bottom line this year.
Well ... while it might look better than 2011, it still a crap. Outlook: The search is not working. I have thousands of mails and i can't delete them. So whenever i need to find something, i have to go to web version. Insert (a table for example) is not there. And that supposed to be a business tool. Can't imagine anyone sane to use MS for personal things. OneNote - no support for local files. One of my employees, before she took a maternity leave, left quite a lot of onenote files that supposed to help train new guys. Unfortunately, we switched to full Mac use. So it is possible to upload them to onedrive. I just wonder if anyone at MS have ever tried to do that. The office365 is much less convenient than google's offer. Basically I can continue to bash them endlessly. But there is no point.
I'm not having the issues you describe in Outlook. I think your database may be messed up and you need to use the repair tool. OneNote: I'm not sure you understand this version. It has full SharePoint and O365 integration, unless you've moved to O365 and have OneDrive for Business with an admin running it it won't work like you want it to. It's only cloud enabled, though you can point it to an in-house sharepoint server for local'ish support. O365 comes with sharepoint also. you can print notes to PDF, the main competitor in the space - EverNote basically works nearly exactly the same way.
Excel is much faster than the older version especially working with really large spreadsheets or spreadsheets that are hogs due to a huge amount of calculations that need to be done (complex formulas with lookups etc.) Pivot Tables haven't been locking up for me when sorting data which is a giant fix.
Word - well I think we can all agree that typing in 2015 isn't exactly like find the Higgs at this point and Word is still handily the best in this space.
One other complaint that was not addressed since the beta of Office 2016 for Mac is the lack of ability to make multiple profiles. For example, the work I am involved in more or less requires separation of email due to conflict of interests.
Well, in Windows this is very easy to address and create a separate email profile and have it prompt which one upon opening. Not for Office 2016 for Mac, no such option exists.
Sure, you can add multiple email accounts to the single profile, but that technically creates issues legally.
I'm a big fan of Office 365. Much to my surprise, it's my preferred version of Office, well, pretty much ever since the days of Windows 3.0. I really like the subscription model and I think it's priced very reasonably; for the projects I've done, its performance and functionality is the best I've ever seen. Of course I can nitpick about a lot of details (Word remains difficult with longer documents and more complex formatting) but if that version gets to Apple, I think the Office nirvana will be at hand - multiple platforms in harmony, able to share files willy-nilly. Glad to see Office getting a major update on the Mac, though. It should, and sooner than this.
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kspirit - Thursday, July 9, 2015 - link
I hope the W10 Office will also be available as a package without subscription. I hate those things. It's a pain to worry about them.Also, why are they releasing their stuff on Apple's devices before their own? :/ I know that we'll get it with W10, but really, they couldn't hold this off for a month or two? It gives a bad impression.
gdansk - Thursday, July 9, 2015 - link
Mac needed a new version of Office more than Windows did. They've had more recent releases. Additionally, bugs in the Mac OS X version will be less important as it has many fewer users. The Windows version is an important product for Microsoft and it is best to have it thoroughly tested.mdriftmeyer - Thursday, July 9, 2015 - link
The hundreds of millions of Mac users make billions in MSOffice, for Microsoft.testbug00 - Thursday, July 9, 2015 - link
Hundreds of millions is a tad over the top. I would say tens of millions of OSX users who use office.iWatchHogwash - Saturday, July 11, 2015 - link
Other Apple news not mentioned here:Apple Watch sales fall by 90 per cent
Apple has another lemon
It is turning out exactly as we said – sales of Apple's latest cure for cancer have slumped to a shadow of their initial "glory."
While the Tame Apple Press and a big chunk of analysts sung praises for the iWatch, claiming it would sell 70 million in its first year. We pointed out that the gizmo was nearly two years out of date and lacked most of the software which would make it moderately useful and if it succeed it was a triumph of user stupidity and marketing.
Lately analysts have been slowly withdrawing the enthusiastic sales figures they gave the watch, and now a new survey has shown that sales have fallen by 90 per cent.
Apple is selling fewer than 20,000 watches a day in the US since the initial surge in April, and on some days fewer than 10,000. This is not too bad, but it does suggest that most people who wanted an iWatch have one, and existing users are not managing to win many converts amongst their friends to make it take off. For the record to make the 70 million figure apple would have to sell 195,000 a day.
Data collected by Slice Intelligence show that Two-thirds of the watches sold so far have been the lower-profit "Sport" version, whose price starts at $349, according to Slice, rather than the costlier and more advanced models that start at $549. Apple's gold "Edition" model priced at $10,000 or more has only sold 2,000 of them have been sold in the US.
The figures are based on the electronic receipts sent to millions of email addresses following purchases. The company conducts market research on behalf of consumer-goods companies, among others, many of them in the Fortune 500.
All up though these figures are not bad, but they are not the sort of numbers which Apple needs to convince its investors that it can make mega sales any more. With sales drying up in China, Jobs mob will not have a good bottom line this year.
Source:
http://www.fudzilla.com/news/wearables/38173-apple...
MacDaddy100 - Sunday, July 12, 2015 - link
How about all the negative news for Samsung?How about all the negative news for Samsung?
Oh Wait.... It doesn't fit your propaganda and agenda in these comments.
MacDaddy100 - Sunday, July 12, 2015 - link
And MicrosoftWinterCharm - Friday, July 17, 2015 - link
Exactly. What happened to samsung smartphone sales? They're flopping horribly, because people have realized their phones are shit.Wardrop - Thursday, July 9, 2015 - link
Don't worry, Office for Mac 2016 is just the Mac version of Office 2013, more or less. You're not missing out.III-V - Thursday, July 9, 2015 - link
About time. Was supposed to release last year.LordConrad - Thursday, July 9, 2015 - link
I hope you can still disable the Ribbon in Office 2016 for Mac.Max Oscar - Friday, July 10, 2015 - link
Thats Great News Every one is waiting for it anspecially the Microsoft Office 2013 Users.And I am one of them.n0nsense - Friday, July 10, 2015 - link
Well ... while it might look better than 2011, it still a crap.Outlook:
The search is not working. I have thousands of mails and i can't delete them. So whenever i need to find something, i have to go to web version.
Insert (a table for example) is not there.
And that supposed to be a business tool. Can't imagine anyone sane to use MS for personal things.
OneNote - no support for local files. One of my employees, before she took a maternity leave, left quite a lot of onenote files that supposed to help train new guys. Unfortunately, we switched to full Mac use. So it is possible to upload them to onedrive. I just wonder if anyone at MS have ever tried to do that. The office365 is much less convenient than google's offer.
Basically I can continue to bash them endlessly. But there is no point.
Michael Bay - Friday, July 10, 2015 - link
>full mac use>for actual human office work
Well, there is your issue.
idris - Friday, July 10, 2015 - link
RE: Search in Outlook:Have a look & see if this will resolve your issue: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2769651
pablo906 - Saturday, July 18, 2015 - link
I'm not having the issues you describe in Outlook. I think your database may be messed up and you need to use the repair tool.OneNote: I'm not sure you understand this version. It has full SharePoint and O365 integration, unless you've moved to O365 and have OneDrive for Business with an admin running it it won't work like you want it to. It's only cloud enabled, though you can point it to an in-house sharepoint server for local'ish support. O365 comes with sharepoint also. you can print notes to PDF, the main competitor in the space - EverNote basically works nearly exactly the same way.
Excel is much faster than the older version especially working with really large spreadsheets or spreadsheets that are hogs due to a huge amount of calculations that need to be done (complex formulas with lookups etc.) Pivot Tables haven't been locking up for me when sorting data which is a giant fix.
Word - well I think we can all agree that typing in 2015 isn't exactly like find the Higgs at this point and Word is still handily the best in this space.
Lord 666 - Saturday, July 11, 2015 - link
One other complaint that was not addressed since the beta of Office 2016 for Mac is the lack of ability to make multiple profiles. For example, the work I am involved in more or less requires separation of email due to conflict of interests.Well, in Windows this is very easy to address and create a separate email profile and have it prompt which one upon opening. Not for Office 2016 for Mac, no such option exists.
Sure, you can add multiple email accounts to the single profile, but that technically creates issues legally.
Dadofamunky - Wednesday, July 15, 2015 - link
I'm a big fan of Office 365. Much to my surprise, it's my preferred version of Office, well, pretty much ever since the days of Windows 3.0. I really like the subscription model and I think it's priced very reasonably; for the projects I've done, its performance and functionality is the best I've ever seen. Of course I can nitpick about a lot of details (Word remains difficult with longer documents and more complex formatting) but if that version gets to Apple, I think the Office nirvana will be at hand - multiple platforms in harmony, able to share files willy-nilly. Glad to see Office getting a major update on the Mac, though. It should, and sooner than this.