There will be two different editions available to purchase at retail: Office for Mac Home and Student 2011 and Office for Mac Home and Business 2011. Additionally, starting today, if you buy Office 2008 for Mac, you will be able to upgrade to Office 2011 when it is available at no additional cost through the Microsoft Office for Mac Technology Guarantee Program.
Pricing:
Office for Mac Home & Student Edition 2011 (Word for Mac, PowerPoint for Mac, Excel for Mac and Messenger for Mac 8 )
US$119 (1 install), Family Pack: $149 (3 installs)
Office for Mac Home & Business Edition 2011 (Word for Mac, PowerPoint for Mac, Excel for Mac, Outlook for Mac and Messenger for Mac 8 )
$199 (1 install), Multi-Pack: $279 (2 installs)
If Home and Student customers determine that they need the additional functionality of a desktop e-mail client, they can easily step up to Office for Mac Home and Business 2011 using online upgrade functionality. Additionally, there is a special edition for higher education students, staff and faculty:
Office for Mac Academic Edition 2011 (Word for Mac, PowerPoint for Mac, Excel for Mac, Outlook for Mac and Messenger for Mac)
$99 (U.S. ERP).
Microsoft also announced a program to allow qualifying customers to upgrade to Office 2011 at no additional cost when they purchase Office 2008.
• Qualifying purchase details: Office 2008 for Mac must be purchased between Aug. 1, 2010, and Nov. 30, 2010, at Microsoft or authorized reseller.
• Program registration: Customers can register for the program online at http://www.microsoft.com/mac/techg. Qualifying registrants must fill out the form and submit their product key(s) and dated sales receipt for Office 2008 for Mac by Dec. 31, 2010.
Source: Microsoft Corporation
Office is so irrelevant now. No thanks, Microsoft.
Microsoft is so irrelevant now.
Did the prices go down? I thought Office (non-edu edition) used to be around $400.
Never, ever, never, ever will this crap come near my Macs. Bleauch!!
Is there an upgrade fee?
“Can I get some toilet paper – I’m crowning in here”.
– Peter Griffith
In a word, cruftware.
Can we say iWork? Less than $80 and none of the Microsoft
What iWork can’t do OpenOffice can. No thanks.
will it run on my iPad ( android,webos)? … no thanks….
Now if we could just purchase outlook for Mac. Apple Mail is still just crappy.
What can they possibly do for a new model of Office? I don’t have it but the people I know who do, use like Office 2001.
NFW.
Seriously.
Gave up Office without looking back years ago. The less Microsoft software on my machines the better.
Just look at the number of editions and pricing for one, ONE software title for the Mac alone that required 5 paragraphs to begin to attempt to explain what should take one sentence.
Does anyone at MSFT who gives a damn see the problem why they will never catch up to iOS+iPhone?
If only iWork would do everything that Office does, I would be a happy camper. I dumped Office 2008 about a year ago and within two weeks, had to reinstall it because iWork simply will not interface with the Microsoft Office world at the university where I teach.
Problems with the editing and sharing Word documents and problems with student access to PowerPoint docs prevent me from making my Mac 100% Microsoft free.
I have dropped Entourage ever since MobileMe entered the Exchange world but I can eliminate the other parts of Office.
Nuts.
You now have to pay more now for installing it on multiple machines.
Unfortunately, in a cross-platform environment, neither iWork nor OpenOffice, NeoOffice, etc. are reliable substitutes. The idiots would rather drop Macs than Office. I know- I’ve worked in that world.
Still waiting for Numbers to support matrix math so I can dump the copy of Excel I bought with my first Mac back in 2003. Office v.X, I believe it was called, and I refuse to upgrade so long as it still does the one thing I need it to do.
one word……
“NO!”
Stilln isn’t the full suite.
No thanks. I have everything I need in case I have to work with that BS new extension BS from Microsoft Office BS. iWork, NeoOffice, OpenOffice Org. bye bye!!
” width=”19″ height=”19″ alt=”grin” style=”border:0;” />
@I wish –
Have you tried NeoOffice, a recompiled version of OpenOffice with a more Mac-like interface? I’ve had several people tell me it’s better at dealing with MS Office files than iWork.
Excel is the only part of MS Office that has distinct value over the less expensive alternatives, but only if you are a guru doing serious “number crunching.”
Isn’t Messenger for Mac a free download? Nice of Microsoft to make a free item part of the package.
Interesting that the “low-cost” version of Office no longer includes an email client, and costs $30 less. Microsoft did something that makes sense.
Despite the anti-office attitude here, I’m sure Microsoft will sell many copies of Office for Mac. The majority of new Macs are sold to “switchers,” and many will get Office for Mac without considering alternatives.
@Geo B, you wouldn’t believe the one reason a person wouldn’t switch to OpenOffice over Excel on her iMac. The selected cell border was thick solid black instead of light blue (which she’d never noticed in Excel), and there was no obvious way to change it in OO.
I didn’t even try pushing iWorks’ Numbers after that…
Note to Steve Balmer:
I’d rather go tend the veggies in my garden… seriously.
Since no1 really gives a crap about Mac Orifice 2011, perhaps I can use it as fertilizer?? Srsly… I’d rather take a nice, healthy dump on my lawn than use Mac Office 2011.
Good luck with MS Steve… I have a bottle of Dom on ice for you.
As long as it takes, baby!