![]() ![]() The problem is, the change will heavily impact legitimate Office users.ĭo you work on a desktop computer at the office, but use a laptop when you’re traveling? Previously, you could install Office on both your systems and then move freely from one to the other, as long as you didn’t use both at the same time. Unlike previous versions, Microsoft Office 2011 validates each product key and locks it to a single computer. Microsoft has done this in order to protect itself against piracy. I have just one major caveat in recommending Office 2011: the new licensing system. Who shouldn’t buy Office 2011Īll that said, there’s one big group of users who can probably ignore Office 2011: those who currently use, and are perfectly content with Apple’s $79 The list goes on: There are tons of new features in Office 2011 that, cumulatively, should be worth the price of admission for all but the tightest of tightwads. Outlook 2011’s new e-mail database system, which makes the program more compatible with both Time Machine and Spotlight than Entourage was.The Template Gallery, which makes templates both easier to use and more powerful.It makes commonly used tools easily accessible, and (if you don’t like it) is easily and completely removable The new Ribbon interface, which replaces 2008’s much-maligned Elements Gallery.The ability to save documents to the cloud (using Microsoft’s SkyDrive or SharePoint services) and then edit them from anywhere, using either the Office desktop client (Windows or OS X) or the Office Web apps.In addition to the Windows compatibility I extolled above, there’s also: The should-I-or-shouldn’t-I-buy question is almost as easy to answer for anyone who owns an earlier version of Office: Assuming the price is no barrier, Office 2011 has enough new features to make the investment make great sense. My only hesitation in recommending Office 2011 whole-heartedly for business users: The licensing terms for the Home and Business edition, which prohibit you from installing the suite on more than one machine unless you buy the Multi-Pack, aren’t great. (Note: We’re continuing to test cross-platform compatibility we’ll let you know what we find as soon as we can.) More significantly, now that Visual Basic for Applications is back on the Mac, you can feel confident that macros you create on your Mac will work fine for anyone else, regardless of their machine. ![]() If, for example, you add things like conditional formatting, sparklines, or pivot tables to a spreadsheet on your Mac, they should appear exactly the same on a Windows machine. There’s also better file compatibility: Documents, spreadsheets, and presentations created on one platform should open perfectly on the other. And you can switch from one platform to another yourself without undue confusion there’s greater feature parity between the Mac and Windows suites than ever before. Start with the suite’s powerful co-editing tools: You and your co-workers or clients can all edit Office documents at the same time, regardless of whether you’re using the Windows or Mac version. ![]()
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