There will be two different editions available to purchase at retail: Office for Mac Home and Student 2011 and Office for Mac Home and Business 2011. Additionally, starting today, if you buy Office 2008 for Mac, you will be able to upgrade to Office 2011 when it is available at no additional cost through the Microsoft Office for Mac Technology Guarantee Program.
Pricing:
Office for Mac Home & Student Edition 2011 (Word for Mac, PowerPoint for Mac, Excel for Mac and Messenger for Mac 8 )
US$119 (1 install), Family Pack: $149 (3 installs)
Office for Mac Home & Business Edition 2011 (Word for Mac, PowerPoint for Mac, Excel for Mac, Outlook for Mac and Messenger for Mac 8 )
$199 (1 install), Multi-Pack: $279 (2 installs)
If Home and Student customers determine that they need the additional functionality of a desktop e-mail client, they can easily step up to Office for Mac Home and Business 2011 using online upgrade functionality. Additionally, there is a special edition for higher education students, staff and faculty:
Office for Mac Academic Edition 2011 (Word for Mac, PowerPoint for Mac, Excel for Mac, Outlook for Mac and Messenger for Mac)
$99 (U.S. ERP).
Microsoft also announced a program to allow qualifying customers to upgrade to Office 2011 at no additional cost when they purchase Office 2008.
• Qualifying purchase details: Office 2008 for Mac must be purchased between Aug. 1, 2010, and Nov. 30, 2010, at Microsoft or authorized reseller.
• Program registration: Customers can register for the program online at http://www.microsoft.com/mac/techg. Qualifying registrants must fill out the form and submit their product key(s) and dated sales receipt for Office 2008 for Mac by Dec. 31, 2010.
Source: Microsoft Corporation
Office is so irrelevant now. No thanks, Microsoft.
Microsoft is so irrelevant now.
Did the prices go down? I thought Office (non-edu edition) used to be around $400.
Never, ever, never, ever will this crap come near my Macs. Bleauch!!
Is there an upgrade fee?
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In a word, cruftware.
Can we say iWork? Less than $80 and none of the Microsoft
What iWork can’t do OpenOffice can. No thanks.
will it run on my iPad ( android,webos)? … no thanks….
Now if we could just purchase outlook for Mac. Apple Mail is still just crappy.
What can they possibly do for a new model of Office? I don’t have it but the people I know who do, use like Office 2001.
NFW.
Seriously.
Gave up Office without looking back years ago. The less Microsoft software on my machines the better.
Just look at the number of editions and pricing for one, ONE software title for the Mac alone that required 5 paragraphs to begin to attempt to explain what should take one sentence.
Does anyone at MSFT who gives a damn see the problem why they will never catch up to iOS+iPhone?
If only iWork would do everything that Office does, I would be a happy camper. I dumped Office 2008 about a year ago and within two weeks, had to reinstall it because iWork simply will not interface with the Microsoft Office world at the university where I teach.
Problems with the editing and sharing Word documents and problems with student access to PowerPoint docs prevent me from making my Mac 100% Microsoft free.
I have dropped Entourage ever since MobileMe entered the Exchange world but I can eliminate the other parts of Office.
Nuts.
You now have to pay more now for installing it on multiple machines.
Unfortunately, in a cross-platform environment, neither iWork nor OpenOffice, NeoOffice, etc. are reliable substitutes. The idiots would rather drop Macs than Office. I know- I’ve worked in that world.
Still waiting for Numbers to support matrix math so I can dump the copy of Excel I bought with my first Mac back in 2003. Office v.X, I believe it was called, and I refuse to upgrade so long as it still does the one thing I need it to do.
one word……
“NO!”
Stilln isn’t the full suite.
No thanks. I have everything I need in case I have to work with that BS new extension BS from Microsoft Office BS. iWork, NeoOffice, OpenOffice Org. bye bye!!
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@I wish –
Have you tried NeoOffice, a recompiled version of OpenOffice with a more Mac-like interface? I’ve had several people tell me it’s better at dealing with MS Office files than iWork.
Excel is the only part of MS Office that has distinct value over the less expensive alternatives, but only if you are a guru doing serious “number crunching.”
Isn’t Messenger for Mac a free download? Nice of Microsoft to make a free item part of the package.
Interesting that the “low-cost” version of Office no longer includes an email client, and costs $30 less. Microsoft did something that makes sense.
Despite the anti-office attitude here, I’m sure Microsoft will sell many copies of Office for Mac. The majority of new Macs are sold to “switchers,” and many will get Office for Mac without considering alternatives.
@Geo B, you wouldn’t believe the one reason a person wouldn’t switch to OpenOffice over Excel on her iMac. The selected cell border was thick solid black instead of light blue (which she’d never noticed in Excel), and there was no obvious way to change it in OO.
I didn’t even try pushing iWorks’ Numbers after that…
Note to Steve Balmer:
I’d rather go tend the veggies in my garden… seriously.
Since no1 really gives a crap about Mac Orifice 2011, perhaps I can use it as fertilizer?? Srsly… I’d rather take a nice, healthy dump on my lawn than use Mac Office 2011.
Good luck with MS Steve… I have a bottle of Dom on ice for you.
As long as it takes, baby!
@ RBL “Now if we could just purchase outlook for Mac. Apple Mail is still just crappy.”
Reluctantly, I have to agree with you here. It is not just Mail though, it’s the lack of integration between email, calendaring and to-do lists within a single application from Apple that works seamlessly on Exchange. Actually, the move forward to Outlook for Mac from Entourage is a huge step in the right direction from an enterprise perspective.
Don’t get me wrong, I’d love to drop every MS application from my Macs, but the more important issue here is deeper and more seamless integration in the enterprise market. iWorks is getting there, but the lack of an “Outlook” version from Apple is truly one the most glaring missing pieces. This HAS to be the next software priority for Apple.
RLB — Outlook is back in 2011. It’s pretty much just Entourage renamed to Outlook. A bit more like real Outlook since everything is working over WebDav now.
OpenOffice
http://www.openoffice.org/
NeoOffice
http://www.neooffice.org
Apple iWork
http://www.apple.com/iwork/
ThinkFree Office
http://www.thinkfree.com/
Mariner Calc, Mariner Write
http://www.marinersoftware.com/
. . .
Anyone know if it supports CalDav?
iWork ’11 coming this fall? As far as presentations apps goes Keynote still rules over PowerPoint. I helped so many migrate over ot Keynote. Something about simple and ease and less about feature creep is what people really want. Pages is a pretty replacement. It has everything someone would need to write any type of papers. The only major issue is that most still use Word and even tho Pages can open/save Word docs formatting tends to get lost in translation. Excel still rules for Spreadsheets. Numbers the sophmore app of the iWork suite needs a boost in iWork ’11.
If Apple can make iWork ’11 solid than the nail in the coffen would be to release iWork ’11 on the Windows side and let PC World choose.
iWork.com needs a major update and better ease of use to be able to edit the docs online like google docs and Microsoft’s newest efforts for their online suite. Everybody wants their heads in the cloud.
But if you are a hard core Office user you gotta look at Keynote alone. It runs circles around PowerPoint. And your presenations will sing.
Microsoft software is the source of 99% of the evil that threatens my Mac. Shrinking Microsoft one deinstallation at a time…
This is Microsoft offering Mac software. We shouldn’t be so harsh. Yes, there are excellent alternatives, but having a new version of Microsoft Office for Mac only helps Apple. And Microsoft is happy to offer it, because it makes them money. Win-win…
The majority of new Mac sales are to people who are first time Mac owners. That means they were mostly Windows users. Some of those individuals and businesses would not have made the jump to Mac, if there was no “official” and fully supported Microsoft Office for Mac available. No, it’s not as critical as it was a decade ago, but it still makes some difference. Apple cares about selling Macs, not about someone buying a copy of Office instead of iWork.
So if you don’t like Office (or any Microsoft product), don’t buy it. I’m not going to buy Office either. But I don’t mind that there’s a current Mac OS X version of Office available, and even appreciate that Microsoft offers it. And I believe Microsoft employs more Mac OS X developers than any other single company, except mothership Apple.
I hope this version of excel has the microsoft visual basic macro capability built in.
I also hope it DOESN’T have the cheesy looking menubar that the current PC version of Excel has
The last version did not support VBA so it was useless on a Mac in the work environment.
Does this version fully support VBA?
If not then MS is really out of the game!
What a predictable set of responses.
Reality check — #1 Office Productivity Suite. Industry standard. I have it on my Mac and have yet to find anything that compares for business use.
We’ve got a crappy old Dell with Office 2003 on that we RDP into if we need to open a Word or Excel file. Keeps M$ crap off my Mac, and you only need one shitty PC tucked away to keep everyone happy.
Say no to M$!
And I might add, when someone shouts “Fire up the Skoda” across the studio, we know we need to turn on the Dell PC
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Everybody wants their heads in the cloud.
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@I Wish and Geo B, NeoOffice is indeed more closely aligned with the MS Office features than is iWork. However, there are still a handful of things (small handful) that will not fully interface.
I recommend everyone take a new attitude on this. Instead of hanging your head or quietly reinstalling Office when you can’t access something someone did in Word or elsewhere, go back to them and tell them to change formats so you can read it.
Let Office users know that everyone no longer is to be expected to change for them. They will also have to pay attention that what they do interfaces with others. Sometimes, Office users select a feature just because they can in a document, and not necessarily because they have to. Let them start to think compatibility. Meanwhile, NeoOffice will catch up while more and more Office users themselves find alternatives.
In some non-business arenas, you can even go back to them and tell them to use a different application or to change their document in whatever way that will help you. That will eventually spill over to business contexts, too.
Personally, I’m tired of MS Office users dictating what I have to use just to access some less used Office feature or format.
One more thing though. NeoOffice is much more powerful than many people know. But you sometimes have to look in places you don’t expect to find how to make an Office document fully compatible in NeoOffice. Dig deeper to be sure you really can’t access the Office document.
I do not find iWork nearly as sophisticated yet. It targets a different end user. I also use both Nisus Writer Pro and Mellel, depending on my mood. They are both very good but lack the feature set of NeoOffice. (For those who don’t know, NeoOffice is free.) You can also try the (free) Bean as a TextEdit replacement. It opens fast and has some extra features.
I ditched MS Office some time ago – but then I have the luxury of not working in a corporate environment. Now I need to get rid of all the Adobe stuff on my Mac…
I side with the multitude of people who say, “thanks but no thanks!”.
sure, MS Office does many things well.
based solely on my short trial of Office 2008 (v. 12) and the feature list for Office 2011, the suite hasn’t progressed with any meaningful improvement since 2004 (Office for Mac version 11).
Save your money – buy old Office 2004 discs on eBay or learn iWork.
“… having a new version of Microsoft Office for Mac only helps Apple. And Microsoft is happy to offer it, because it makes them money. Win-win…”
No. Microsoft doesn’t merely offer a version of Office for the Mac, they offer an INTENTIONALLY CRIPPLED version of Office for the Mac. They do it in order to hurt Apple.
As long as Mac Office has incompatibilities and lacks features, it serves as a cynical advertisement to ditch your Mac and get a Windows PC so you can experience the ‘full version’ of MS Office. That’s why it exists.
So actually it’s a win-lose situation.
Apple knows this, hence iWork and Appleworks before it.
@iWish
I routinely swap publication manuscripts with the Word/Windows world, using Pages and EndNote. No sweat at all, even with embedded Figures.
As for your students, save your lectures as PDF. Generally, interoperability between Keynote and PP/Win is better than between PP/Mac and PP/Win.
NEVER GONNA BUY THIS IN A HUNDRED YEARS
I de-installed OpenOffice after I realised that my iPhone could not open or view odt files. I use Word for compatibility with colleagues and to be able to view files with my iPhone iDisk application.
@DeVilliers, I prefer NeoOffice to OpenOffice. They are, of course, similar. However, I believe OpenOffice does offer the option to save documents in alternate formats, not merely as an odt. Save your docs differently and your iPhone will open them. As I said earlier, people should actually spend just a bit of time actually learning what NeoOffice and OpenOffice can do and how to do these things. Giving up on it because of iPhone can’t handle .odt docs was premature. Simply spend a moment learning to export in a different format. There are usually several choices.
This article clearly explains how Microsoft is fscking over their customers with this new pricing scheme:
http://www.macworld.com/article/153110/2010/08/office2011_pricing.html?lsrc=rss_main
I’d happily ditch Office 2004 just so I could get a native program that didn’t lock up periodically. But I’ve yet to find an alternative that works as well as Office 2004 (and that includes the dire Office 2008, OpenOffice, Pages/Numbers).
If Office 2011 does everything Office 2004 does but crashes less, I might be tempted by it on that basis alone. I’d rather not be, but the fact is nothing else is up to par yet.
I had to do a couple of presentations. Not my area of work. The first I did in Power Point. The presentation did not look or play correctly on Windows once it was completed. I had to open the thing in Windows and tweak it to get the result. The second I did in Keynote, it not only played very well in Windows, it exported in to Quicktime then I was able to convert that file in to whatever my client needed. It all went smooth with Keynote, and I really can’t say the same bout Power Point.
Why does Word not allow to select time by click in dragging? It does to an extent, but then it takes over and it selects in a way that seems arbitrary. Very frustrating. I hate Word.
Not buying it for home as iWork, Open Office, AbiWord does what I need it to do.
That being said Mail, Address Book and iCal are still not ready to integrate fully with Exchange. Sorry but you have to add a lot of other apps to get to work close. So until the Apple apps get up to par with Office for Mac and Exchange connectivity I suspect that a lot of us Mac users in Enterprise situations are going to keep buying this for the foreseeable future.
@auramac
The OSX firewall does a very effective job of preventing one installation of MS Office from talking to others. After installing or updating, OS X will ask if the application should accept incoming connections. Just say no. These programs have no business talking on the LAN, so think of this as good network security. You can also add each MS program manually under System Preferences:Security:Firewall:Advanced; click the + symbol to add apps to the list.
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everyone please just use iWork and OpenOffice as a backup if you need to open old WordPerfect files
let’s stop using Office, its too bulky and obnoxious and too pervasive for what it is, bloatware
I agree – this will be very popular with the switchers, but long time Mac users who are thinking about upgrading are probably going to look at costs and say, you know what? iWork is a better bargain.
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A lot of us are not in a position to tell our clients to change their file formats or tweak their formatting so we can open their files. And let’s not even think about sending a file to them with something odd looking in it, as happens all too often with OO, etc. I moved to Office 2008 to have native performance on x86 Macs. It cost me well over $200. Paying $119 to get away from crippleware that won’t do Word Equations or run Excel macros is extortion, but I’m afraid I’ll probably pay it.
I like, and am drawn to, beauty.
Compared to Word, iWork and especially Pages is beautiful.
Life’s too short to intentionally sidle up to anything that’s less than beautiful.
> Giving up on it because of iPhone can’t handle .odt docs was premature. Simply spend a moment learning to export in a different format. There are usually several choices.
Your turn of phrase is rather impertinent.
In any event, I tried saving in MS Word format and other formats that the iPhone could open. None of them saved the tables or tab spacing correctly.
Awesome. I’ve tried iWork and the free office suites, they don’t cut it.
MS Office just works better.
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