After years of treating the Mac as an also-ran, Microsoft has changed its tune: Microsoft formally released Office 2016 for the Mac on Thursday morning, even before it released it for Windows. The only catch? If you’re not already an Office 365 subscriber, you’ll be forced to wait until September. If you do subscribe to Microsoft’s Office 365 subscription service, obtaining the new software should be a snap: just surf to and follow the instructions. Students can also check to see if they qualify for a free or discounted copy.
The supported Office 365 subscriptions start at $7 per month or $70 per year with Office 365 Personal, and also include the pricier versions of Office 365 Home, Business, Business Premium, E3, or ProPlus. Each Office subscripton also includes the rights to use Office on both iOS and Android, as well as Mac and Windows PCs. We first, when Microsoft released a preview version of the software. It includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, and Outlook, with a Mac-like feel to it all.
2 Introduction Bloomsburg University now offers Microsoft Office 2016 for Mac to all current employees with a “@bloomu.edu” account. Microsoft Office 2016 for Mac offers faculty/staff access to a myriad of Office products and may be installed on up to five computers. Made with Mac in mind, Office 2016 for Mac gives you access to your favorite Office applications - anywhere, anytime and with anyone. Includes new versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and OneNote.
Why this matters: In the intervening five years since Microsoft last released a version of Office for the Mac (Office 2011!), numerous other office suites have put down stakes on the Mac, not the least of which has been Apple’s own iWork productivity suite. But Microsoft’s argument is that, with Office, your work is connected and stored in the cloud—available on basically whatever platform you wish. Microsoft has also tried to differentiate itself from other office suites by adding intelligence to both its software and data sets that you can connect to—providing up-to-date sales data in a spreadsheet, for example, rather than just a moment in time. OneNote makes its first appearance in a Mac office suite with Office 2016, although it did launch as a standalone Mac app in 2014.
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Bringing Office up to date The new Office suite also addresses general shortcomings with the suite that Microsoft has struggled with, regardless of platform. A good example is real-time collaboration, where users can edit a document simultaneously, rather than send it back and forth for updates and other edits. Google has offered this with its online Google Apps suite, but it’s a feature that Office has lacked until recently. Microsoft highlighted a few of the improvements that it provided for each specific Office application: in PowerPoint, for example, the new improved Presenter View shows you your current slide, the next slide, your notes, and a timer, while your audience sees only the presentation itself. Outlook contains a conversation view and threading (nothing really new where email is concerned, of course), and Excel will do a better job of recommending specific charts to showcase your data to best effect. New PivotTable Slicers also help you filter large volumes of data, Microsoft said.
Excel for Office 2016 for the Mac. The newest addition to the Office for Mac suite is OneNote, Microsoft’s note-taking app for Windows and mobile platforms, although OneNote did launch as a, and it’s on. You can save your notes in notebooks that reside in the cloud. Notes can include a mixed bag of text, Web pages, and graphics, especially handy for, say, college lectures that combine a variety of media. For those of you who have tried out the, what’s your take? Is iWork superior to the new Office, or is this just what you’ve been waiting for?
We’ll have our own formal review soon.
Hi Charlie, Yes, there is no KMS for Office for Mac 2016. For the license using in Office for Mac 2016, it depends on how you purchased the product for your organization. To use Office 2016 for Mac in your organization, it needs to be activated. How you activate Office 2016 for Mac depends on whether your organization has an Office 365 plan or has a volume license agreement. But in both cases your users won’t have to enter any product keys. If your organization has an Office 365 plan, make sure you for Office before you deploy Office 2016 for Mac to your users.
If you don’t assign a user a license, you can still deploy Office 2016 for Mac to that user, but the user won’t be able to activate and use Office. The volume licensed versions of Office 2016 for Mac is the ISO download of the Office 2016 for Mac Standard package in the (VLSC). They are activated automatically during installation. There are no additional steps that you need to do as an admin.
Your users won’t see any activation prompts when they first open Office 2016 for Mac. Hope it helps above. If you still have any question about it, please feel free to let me know:) Regards, Winnie Liang Please remember to mark the replies as answers if they help. If you have feedback for TechNet Subscriber Support, contact.