Comments on: Office for Mac 2011 Coming Oct. 26 http://gigaom.com/2010/09/29/office-for-mac-2011-coming-oct-26/ Tue, 21 May 2013 23:56:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: KsbjA http://gigaom.com/2010/09/29/office-for-mac-2011-coming-oct-26/#comment-391443 Sun, 03 Oct 2010 06:14:49 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=52373#comment-391443 Might get this one. I made a presentation in the new PowerPoint and actually liked it. It has more customization options than Keynote, although Keynote still beats PowerPoint in ease of use.

]]> By: Tom Rector http://gigaom.com/2010/09/29/office-for-mac-2011-coming-oct-26/#comment-391442 Thu, 30 Sep 2010 18:46:17 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=52373#comment-391442 I run Paralells to use my Office 2007 and it works great. I rarely even have to use it anymore now that I concentrate on iWork. Dont spend the money. Its just not worth it to try to continue to use PC products on the mac.

]]> By: the8thgirl http://gigaom.com/2010/09/29/office-for-mac-2011-coming-oct-26/#comment-391441 Thu, 30 Sep 2010 15:43:31 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=52373#comment-391441 I’m extremely happy that Microsoft added the ribbon feature in the new Office for Mac. As you said, the floating window was a huge nuisance.

But what I’m excited about more than anything is the addition of Outlook. I’ve been an Outlook Express/Outlook user for at least 10 years now and have not been able to find anything else, to my liking, that comes close to replacing it. I’m now using Entourage and can’t wait to get rid of it.

]]> By: ee http://gigaom.com/2010/09/29/office-for-mac-2011-coming-oct-26/#comment-391440 Wed, 29 Sep 2010 21:52:25 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=52373#comment-391440 I’m primarily interested in stability and startup speedt. Word 2008 takes 1-10 MINUTES to start on my mac pro and longer on my mac mini. Office 2008 was a crime against the Mac, removing ‘macro’ support from Excel should have resulted in a firing squad. Crashing, buggy behavior, focus problems, and other unprofessional garbage are what defines Office since the intel switchover by apple. 2004 on PPC chips was a fine product, but it suffered (suffers) badly under emulation and all of MS Office 2008 is a broken, sad, and depressing commentary on the state of microsoft’s OSX software dev team in the late 2000s. Forced to use their software for compatibility reasons, I am praying hard that MS Office 2011 is a radical improvement. If not, our mac-desktop-using organization will probably have to switch to something else as we use spreadsheets with tens of thousands of rows and track-changes-enabled editing products heavily every day.

]]> By: MDB http://gigaom.com/2010/09/29/office-for-mac-2011-coming-oct-26/#comment-391439 Wed, 29 Sep 2010 20:33:31 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=52373#comment-391439 Can you say whether it will include (similar but different) OneNote and/or Word’s notebook view? Thx.

]]> By: Caliph http://gigaom.com/2010/09/29/office-for-mac-2011-coming-oct-26/#comment-391438 Wed, 29 Sep 2010 16:40:02 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=52373#comment-391438 The new Microsoft Office for mac is going to be a great upgrade to the previous version. Just from the pic of a sample document I can tell that Microsoft really took a look into their software and made some huge adjustments.

]]> By: crander http://gigaom.com/2010/09/29/office-for-mac-2011-coming-oct-26/#comment-391437 Wed, 29 Sep 2010 16:00:01 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=52373#comment-391437 Doesn’t it come with Outlook (and PST support)? That’s a huge feature (for some).

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