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

[Tim Chown]

As an aside, I see MS offers all the below via IPv6 natively. Nice.

Tim

> On 5 Aug 2015, at 18:44, Julian Field <Jules at ecs.soton.ac.uk> 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/ <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 <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 <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 <https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2500821>
> 
> Jules
> 
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