I haven't had a chance to do extensive compatibility testing, but so far every Office document I've opened has displayed perfectly. Instead, the entire experience feels familiar and. I haven't run screaming from this version of Office-far from it. I've spent the past few months using the preview release of Office 2016 for Mac and have had the final build for the past few days. According to Microsoft, roughly 75 percent of the Office for Mac customer base is made up of cross-platform users, typically with a Windows PC at work and a Mac at home. If you fit in that category, you have plenty of company. I don't expect to hear many complaints from Mac users about Office 2016 for Mac, especially if they've already adapted to the iPad version, which has many similarities with the new Mac release.īut the real beneficiaries of the all-new design are people who switch between Macs and PCs regularly. More importantly, it's left the quirkiness of the old Office for Mac behind. This version is a complete rewrite, with the Office for Mac team moving from its legacy (Carbon) codebase to the more modern Cocoa framework. This version of Office for the Mac is arguably an improvement over its Windows counterpart, at least in some measures. With Office 2016 for Mac, available for Office 365 customers today, Microsoft has finally turned the tables.
