Fox writes, “While I’m fully aware that it’s not all roses for some of our customers, it is good to see the passion coming through whether the feedback is positive or negative.”
“If you’re still thinking about Office 2011, I’m happy to announce we now have a full trial available at www.microsoft.com/mac/trial, free to use for 30-days after download. We know it’s important for some of you to be able to test out new features,” Fox writes. “For those that will be trying the suite for the first time, we hope you enjoy some of the new items – Outlook for Mac, new co-authoring tools, Excel’s Sparklines, Dynamic Reorder in Word & PowerPoint, and more.”
Full article here.
[Attribution: MacRumors. Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Edward W.” for the heads up.]
Outlook in Office for Mac 2011 does not sync with iCal. WTF?
While this version of Office is better than previous ones, if you depend on Visual Basic (VBA) comparability and stability, you need to find another solution.
MS wants $200+ dollars to even discuss the issues.
No thanks!
Worth every penny.
Alright you you programmers. Maybe you know. If I set my year date to 2012, download it and run it and then correct the date to 2011. Will it run for a year and a month?
Hey Apple. Beef up Pages and Numbers so small businesses can stop using MS Office. I’m hanging onto Office 2004 (the last pre-ribbon version) hoping iWork acquires some gonads in the near future.
Eat Me
It’s a trick, they will install trial, probably remove old version, make you life miserable and you will be forced to buy full version.
Not worth it.
It’s an evil plot. I don’t know how I know, but I just know…
Actually, outlook compatibility may help people switching to Mac get all their addresses over.
With so many blue chip companies converting to the iOS EDK for iPad and iPhone, why would they or anyone else want to go backwards by installing last decades production tool Office for Mac? Which if M$’s track record is anything to go by may not even be compatible with iOS devices.
The only reason I’m going to soil my future mac with that bloated software is because I’ll be a college student and my college gives it to students for free, along with a copy of Microsoft’s 7th failure at making an OS.
900 mb download.
‘Nuff said.
The Chief
@C1, haha! Yep, every single penny.
I wouldn’t load it for fear of not being able to remove all trace of it, after the free trial ended.
Nothing M$ is ever going on my Macs!
So there!
I’m still hoping for an iWork ’11 in the not-too-distant future.
Currently, Pages and Numbers meet my needs in those areas and I always get very favorable comments about the presentations I give with Keynote! Folks DO notice the difference. I just don’t need the bells, whistles and expense of Office.
Who cares! It still too expensive.
I am trying out libreoffice.org instead. Always free, no trial
If Office for Mac 2011 sells so well, how come they offer a free trial?
Well, I was anxious for Office 2011 to become available. Most of our Mac users are using it right now. Sufficed to say, I shifted back to using Keynote after trying PowerPoint. It is a bit buggy still.
Quite frankly, I have to keep using Word because that is pretty much the standard in the academic community. However, I allow my graduate students to submit assignments in Pages as well as Word.
Is Office a necessity? It depends on the environment.
I deleted Office and made disk space available for iWok and lots of other really great programs.
@ J. Scott
I am also anxiously awaiting an update to iWork.
This release fixes slow performance issues known since Mac Office v.X, features the award winning and innovative ribbon gui, a new skin and matching set of redesigned icons. As a special bonus 2011 sports a brand new custom folder icon with a dark shaded look.
Fortunately not everything is so fluid and dynamic in the land of letter writing. For instance, Microsoft thoughtfully kept 90% of it’s dialog windows looking exactly as was in ’98.
@ C1,
You’re telling me that the free trial of Office for Mac 2011 is worthless?
I know, I’m slow. I’m still using Office 2000 for Windows and Office 2004 for Mac. I still feel ripped off for those purchases. (I paid $5 for Office 2000 at a flea market in 2002).
@Russ
I really hope you are being sarcastic with statements like:
“….award winning and innovative ribbon gui…”
If MS Office 2011 for the Mac sports an award winning and innovative gui, then my dog craps award winning and innovative turds.
Pass… I made the move to iWork some years ago…
Microsoft Office: the AOL of productvitiy software. A compliment this is not.
WFC?
Still using the 2001 version, when forced, thanks. I can’t handle any NEW suckism.
So far I am very happy. I hope they have more syncing options for Outlook coming in the future. I cant sync my Google calendar, which happens to run my life.
By the way, if any of you work for an organization with an articulation agreement with Microsoft, you can get Office ’11 for $10. That what I did!
I use an Underwood manual typewriter before I even think about MS Office.
@ Arnold Ziffel –
Dude! How do you connect your Underwood to the Internet?
David F.
I’m an academic as well and I have to use Office. That said, it beats the hell out of the previous version, and Pages is feeling downright slow compared to Word. However if Microsoft can make a huge improvement with Office I’d expect something extra special (and superior) from Apple.
Apologies MDN, my login details are in Sydney and I’m on holidays at Queenland’s Gold Coast.
And this post was done with a brand new MB Pro. ADSL WiFi up here absolutely sucks. At times it’s barely faster than dial up. Still the sun’s out and the waves are cool so WTH.
I has whatever the latest version is for the PC and suffered that blasted Award Winning Interface daily, thanks to MS’s macros. But I don’t work there anymore, so accordingly, I have not launched VMWare since October.
Frankly, I haven’t looked at the new Mac version at all. I have 2008, and contrary to 84’s post, it also does not have the ribbon. If 2011 has the ribbon, then I’m just going to go ahead and stick with 2008 until it doesn’t do something that I need it to. And considering the fact that I’m a photographer and not an accountant, that could be a good long while. I actually had to launch Word to verify that it DIDN’T have the ribbon, because I honestly couldn’t remember. That’s how much I use Office.
“I has whatever the latest version is for the PC”
I also has cheezburger.
OpenOffice offers me years of free USE!
Free MS Orifice? Be still, my beating heart!
I’d tell M$ to bite me but I don’t want to get an infection. I’d probably have to get rabies shots.
i prefer libreoffice versus this…POS.
I run a small business and find iWork to do just fine. Just completed a complex spreadsheet with linear regression forecasting models. I dumped Office years ago due to its sluggishness and bugs and haven’t looked back. The fact that they’ve drastically lowered the price from five years ago offering free trials tell me the Mac community has by and large told Microshit to take a flying leap.
At the place where I work, they actually use typewriters for stuff. I asked them if our company doubles as a museum on the weekends. They didn’t laugh. I couldn’t stop.
@NHL:
“made disk space available for iWok”
That’s good – I bet iWok takes up a lot of room inside your computer. Its always hard to find a good place to keep the one in my tiny Manhattan apartment’s kitchen.
@Greg,
VBA is being deprecated even on Windows. I suggest you find another solution soon to replace everything VBA.
I bought a copy of Office 16 years ago in the Microsoft Company Store when I was visiting a friend who worked on Picture It. Even though I paid $25 for it, I felt it wasn’t worth it. I since got free copies from my work at a college and still didn’t think it was quite worth it.
I hardly ever used these free versions from work and will not try or install this version. I use iWork.