OK, so I just called Microsoft for you to ask about this, as I was actually
curious myself.
So, here's the deal. Office 2016 for the mac is available, yes, not even as
the public preview. It's out, but! hold on! there is a little small catch.
It is out, yes, but right now, it's only available to Office 365
subscribers. Not to official non-365 subscribers who just want it as is,
full fledged. However, on the plus side of this, it is apparently supposed
to be fully released without the need for Office 365 come next month.
Once this is done, they will also then be releasing Office 2016 for Windows
for both 365 members as well as non-365 full fledged users.
Please realize that none of what I am saying here breaks any NDA. I'm
telling you exactly what I was directly told by a Microsoft sales agent
named Hermon.
If you want to get either of the versions out now of Microsoft Office for a
mac, or a Windows PC, then here's what you need to do.
First off, be sure you're subscribed to Office 365. You can do this through
http://www.office.com
Once you have done this, go back to the above link, and sign in with your
Microsoft passport.
Once in, click on the link for my account.
I think a more direct link actually is:
http://account.office.com
It might be
http://myaccount.office.com
It's one of the two, I just don't recall which.
Once you're at this page and logged in, you should see a section for
installation. If you look under here, you'll see the option to download
either of these installers, for the mac, or for a PC. Pick the one you
want, download it, and install it by running the installer. Then, make sure
during the installer that you sign in with your Microsoft passport if asked
to do so. It's been a while since I've needed to install, so I don't recall
exactly what that process is, but I know it's very very straight forward.
Once done, you're good to go.
As for the accessibility, I've not used it in a while, but I did try one of
the older public previews, and for what it was worth, yes, there were some
major issues, but for the most part, unless you were doing really really
really heavy editting, it worked quite well. Even MS Word finally has been
fixed where now you can read the document window. Remember that this was
quite a few preview builds back though, so I'd honestly give it a shot. I
think you'll be at least somewhat, if not very impressed.
Chris.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Joe Quinn" <[email protected]>
To: "mac list" <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, August 27, 2015 12:12 PM
Subject: Office 2016?
Is ms office 2016 for the mac out yet? If so is it accessible?
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