[OSX-Users] Re: Office 2016 for Mac now available

[Hugh Glaser]

Wow.
I’m pretty certain it is much faster than 2011.
Or it might be that I did take the trouble to throw all the cruft away for the old installations.
And not so different either, which is good.

> On 7 Aug 2015, at 09:30, Jules Field <Jules at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
> Just to note that the "Standard" version also contains OneNote, so they are apparently the same products (though the licensing and activation methods are very different, you're limited to 5 devices for the Office365 version).
> 
> Jules.
> 
> On 05/08/2015 18:44, Julian Field wrote:
>> Folks,
>> 
>> You can now get your paws on Microsoft Office 2016 for Mac.
>> Compatibility with the PC version has improved quite a bit. All the nice menus are all still there.
>> 
>> There are 2 different versions available.
>> 
>> 1. The "Standard" version (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, as far as I know) which you can install on any University-owned machine. It does not require any licence code or activation key, download it from here:
>>    http://www.software.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Staff%20%26%20PGR/Microsoft/mac/
>> 
>> 2. The "Professional Plus" (also contains OneNote) which you can install on your *own* machines, including home computers. This will activate itself. You should start here, login with your iSolutions username/password and then click on the words "Office 365" at the top:
>>    http://go.soton.ac.uk/365login
>> 
>> BIG NOTE: This will not touch your installation of Office 2011 or any other previous version. If you want to remove 2011, I *strongly* recommend you do so BEFORE installing 2016, as the removal process is completely manual and much more difficult if both versions are present. Microsoft's list of steps are here:
>>    https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/kb/2398768
>> 
>> If you still have Office 2008 installed, then I would remove that first too. The steps are here:
>>    https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2500821
>> 
>> Jules
>> 
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> 
> Jules
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