Office 2011 to ship October 26
That's right -- Office for Mac 2011 now has an on-sale date; it's October 26th, which is just about a month away. The suite will be the first Mac OS X version that offers Outlook rather than Entourage, and it will come in a few different flavors. Home and Student 2011 will be available for US$119 (or $149 for a three-copy family pack), and it will come with Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and Messenger. Home and Business 2011 will have the whole enchilada and will sell for $199 (or $279 for a two-install pack).
The announcement came with the cheery video above, which runs through a few new features of the software and shows you a few of the kind folks running the Mac Business Unit. A couple of us have been using Office for Mac 2011, and we'll have some impressions for you later on. Stay tuned -- if you've been waiting for a brand new Office for Mac, the wait is almost over.
[via Mashable and Nadyne Richmond]
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
camelsnot said 4:53PM on 9-28-2010
gratz to microsoft, despite the negative fanboi comments soon to follow.
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DS said 5:17PM on 9-28-2010
Not at all the first featuring Outlook... prior to the 2004 version it was always Outlook for Mac.
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Buzz said 5:17PM on 9-28-2010
How long has Microsoft internally been calling this Office 2010?
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Romesh said 5:52PM on 9-28-2010
Office for Mac releases are always delayed by a year. Hence you have for windows:
Office 2003
Office 2007
Office 2010
and for Mac:
Office 2004
Office 2008
Office 2011
tommatarazzo said 9:27PM on 9-28-2010
Why don't they talk about the features that actually matter like VBA in Excel and seamless formatting between different operating systems/office versions?
Microsoft just doesn't get it.
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bowman_ml said 12:37AM on 9-29-2010
They do talk about them ... Just not in this particular video. Other videos have coved the return of VBA and the approach to ensuring that formatting between the two versions works as required. If you're basing your views of this single presentation that get thee to Mactopia and see the remainder. Through work I get a discounted copy of office for windows and run that under VMWare. I'm not sure if I'll be buying this but I certainly am tempted. I think it means one less reason to maintain two OSs.
Peter said 9:54PM on 9-28-2010
Why don't they talk about being able to start in under a minute on an 8-core MacPro ??
How about being able to start in 5 - 10 seconds like decent apps do?
I was suckered on Office 2004. And again on 2008. Not going to happen again. No performance - no money. It's *that* simple.
Especially since Office is no longer the "only game in town". Thank goodness.
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Maddux said 11:01AM on 9-29-2010
Uh, they do. Did you watch the video or do you just want to complain? Startup time improvement is one of the main points of the video. It's fair to say that you're suspicious that what they're saying is correct, but don't say "why don't they talk about..." if you haven't watched it.
Peter said 11:15AM on 9-29-2010
Er - it's Flash.
It was not one of the things they mentioned in the blog post. Instead they're on about "most visually impactful features" etc etc.
We've had all that before That was my point.
Y-Guy said 11:24PM on 9-28-2010
I've been running O11 for about a week now, as it was released to those with with Volume Licensing Service early. I freakin love it. It's enabled me to leave my Windows machine behind at work and totally move to the Mac without compromise. Entourage was ok, but having Outlook on my Mac is what I needed to be able to fully use my Mac at work. Best of it is very snappy, most the visual stuff might be neat to the folks at MS, I just needed something that worked and worked quickly.
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Kelmon said 10:42AM on 9-29-2010
Pre-ordered today (£176.99 from Amazon UK, in case anyone is interested). I'm still running Office:mac 2004 since 2008 was a bit of a dud so the new version, given that it apparently (according to MacWorld) nixes many of the issues, was a no-brainer. My wife is an Excel junkie so she'll certainly appreciate the new version.
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Viremia said 11:41AM on 9-29-2010
Sorry Microsoft, but I'm not biting. You've screwed up many of the charting features that were a must for me in the current version. You've released buggy, slow, and crashy versions too many times in a row. You've promised the world and delivered crap. I'll wait to see if they actually live up to half of what they promise before I even consider upgrading.
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Seth said 1:42PM on 9-29-2010
I had to write a review of Office 2010 for PC today and was thinking how its fast falling into irrelevance.
A hardcore Outlook user, I ditched it over a year ago for GMail/Google Calendar and wish I had done it much sooner.
As it stands now, I think 90% of users and businesses could not only cope but thrive with a commitment to switch to Google Docs for Spreadsheet and Word Processing, but admittedly that would probably be premature on an ROI basis for businesses - even personally I prefer Excel and Word for now.
I have been working a lot with rich application development in HTML5 and the future for software models like Microsoft Office is definitely in serious jeopardy.
HTML5 reminds me alot of early web development - its potential to disrupt computing and software revenue models is scary, especially as hardware-accelerated rendering for canvas arrives (already in IE9).
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net whirr ker said 2:37PM on 9-29-2010
I LOVE that exploded layers feature! That would be ideal in Adobe's Suite!
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zadig said 10:12PM on 9-29-2010
I would give up 5-10 seconds of launch time if they'd just fix their awful, bloated, unclean-able HTML output.
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