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Re: Office 365 is now on Mac App Store

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Post by krembo »

tphan wrote: post #28
krembo wrote: post #27

Office was available for Mac for many years. The news here is that Office is now in the Mac App Store, not that big of a news. Anyhow, worth noting that the Mac versions of Office are no near to the Windows versions. They are thin clients with only a portion of the win capabilities, and those which exists are buggy, to say the least. If I had a Mac, I would go to G Suite, which gives better capabilities for 99.9% of…

I use both Office for Mac and Windows all the time and Office for Mac is pretty reliable IMO. They pretty much have feature parity. Which features are you missing?

Have you tried using PowerQuery for instance? It's only one of the things available in Windows only. Same if you try to work with the Data Model. (I'm not sure for Macros & VBAs but can guess they are also mostly not functional) Again, not very common for the 99%, but if you are an Excel power user you should know about those, especially about PQ.

Re: Office 365 is now on Mac App Store

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Post by wvenable »

krembo wrote: post #27

Office was available for Mac for many years. The news here is that Office is now in the Mac App Store, not that big of a news. Anyhow, worth noting that the Mac versions of Office are no near to the Windows versions. They are thin clients with only a portion of the win capabilities, and those which exists are buggy, to say the least. If I had a Mac, I would go to G Suite, which gives better capabilities for 99.9% of…

Not only has office been available on the Mac for many years, it started on the Mac.

Re: Office 365 is now on Mac App Store

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Post by krembo »

CPLX wrote: post #29
krembo wrote: post #27

Office was available for Mac for many years. The news here is that Office is now in the Mac App Store, not that big of a news. Anyhow, worth noting that the Mac versions of Office are no near to the Windows versions. They are thin clients with only a portion of the win capabilities, and those which exists are buggy, to say the least. If I had a Mac, I would go to G Suite, which gives better capabilities for 99.9% of…

Not sure what you're talking about. I've been using Office on OSX since it's been a thing and it's always been pretty much equivalent. Especially recently.

see my reply below to tphan :-)

Re: Office 365 is now on Mac App Store

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Post by TMWNN »

killion wrote: post #26

I'm wondering if it's worth uninstalling Office and reinstalling. If it uses the App Store update mechanism instead of Microsoft Autoupdate I would prefer it. Autoupdate presents a window almost every time a launch an Office application.

Microsoft AutoUpdate used to pop up, but lately the updating has happened in the background and I haven't seen any window. Because of that I don't want to install the App Store version, because it seems like any obtrusive update (one that requires my attention) is more likely to occur in that venue.

Re: Office 365 is now on Mac App Store

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Post by pkamb »

freehunter wrote: post #4
ghshephard wrote: post #2

The million (10 million? 100 Million) dollar question that I haven't seen addressed yet (but I'm sure will be, if it hasn't already) - is what % cut Apple is getting from the subscription revenue.

Does Apple let developers negotiate their fee? I thought it was a flat 30% for the first year and 15% after that?

They don't let "developers" negotiate their fee, but Microsoft and Netflix certainly do.

Re: Office 365 is now on Mac App Store

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Post by Scoundreller »

ghshephard wrote: post #2

The million (10 million? 100 Million) dollar question that I haven't seen addressed yet (but I'm sure will be, if it hasn't already) - is what % cut Apple is getting from the subscription revenue.

On this note, Apple's 30% flat tax is a poor decision.

I wonder how much of a hit Apple would take if the first $5000 per year per app was rebated.

There's a long tail of mild-moderately successful apps that provide value to some, but may not be economic to continue. With this system, devs could re-invest ~50% more funds into their early-stage product if they could.

It may pay for itself in future success and better products.

It's like a VC: You're small and a small amount of money means a lot to you. We'll give it to you in exchange for 30% of your future sales. The system works.

Netflix does it. AWS does it. GCloud does it.

Re: Office 365 is now on Mac App Store

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Post by nicky0 »

killion wrote: post #26

I'm wondering if it's worth uninstalling Office and reinstalling. If it uses the App Store update mechanism instead of Microsoft Autoupdate I would prefer it. Autoupdate presents a window almost every time a launch an Office application.

And half the time Autoupdate just wants to update itself!

Re: Office 365 is now on Mac App Store

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Post by CephalopodMD »

scarface74 wrote: post #24
kevindqc wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's recent that it's the "same" Office though, no? It used to have different codebase (with, I'm sure, some reused code) and even had different release versions (ie: Office 2011 on Mac VS Office 2010/2013 on Windows) I dug a bit and I found this article[1] that says it's now using a common codebase for Office 2016 since January last year, so I guess it's not something new with this new release of Office 365 on mac.…

They’ve been going back and forth between using the same codebase and separate codebases since the 90s.

Can I get a source on that? Looks like they haven't had a shared codebase in almost 20 years.
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