Office for Mac 2016 Preview: This letter will self-destruct in 60 days Microsoft has released the first preview build of Office for Mac 2016, its next edition of the software for Apple PCs. The Word, Excel et al suite can now be downloaded and tested out by the anyone with an OS X Yosemite or later machine. "Office 2016 for Mac shares an unmistakably Office experience – but it is also …
I would be too, if it did not require Java for full functionality on OS X.
I prefer OpenOffice over LibreOffice for stability. LibreOffice is busy getting rid of the Java but I'm pretty sure it will have to stay for the database connectivity: nothing else has such a wide range of database drivers.
It's not opinion... Office Mac is making the ribbon less ignorable and following the Windows version into TIFKAM hell.
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/03/office-for-mac-2016-hands-on-a-vital-upgrade-with-some-kinks-to-work-out/
I thought every Mac that running Mavericks is eligible and able to run Yosemite as well?
Does that mean that they should? Every new OS version brings changes, some for the good, some for the bad. Yosemite includes a lot of pointless UI fuckery. Though to be fair, under the hood it seems to contain mostly improvements. Notable exception: I-Tunes seems to get worse with each new release.
"I have been trying on and off for four hours and nothing happens."
It's Microsoft. You have to re-install your OS first. If you're lucky it will "take."
Oh and don't forget to delete/edit a few keys in your registry. I know it's a Mac, but they are bound to have installed one somewhere.
Why? I'm pretty certain that over 90 % of users will be on Mavericks or Yosemite. Those numbers will only look better when it gets to the release date. (I'm annoyed because my second machine is artificially restricted to Lion but it is my second machine and from 2006). Apple will have the numbers from software updates and is quite happy to splash them around and the hints to upgrade for free aren't exactly subtle. Yosemite has the highest integration between MacOS and IOS making it easier for vendors, such as Microsoft, targeting both with its software.
Except that by the time it is released we will undoubtedly be using OSX Jellystone, or whatever they are coming up with at the moment, they will have changed the address book format yet again and yet again Outlook will not work properly so I will just go back to using UniBox given how long you now have to wait for Mail to actually start up.
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