You may have noticed that Microsoft began rolling out a new version of Microsoft Office early this week. That means that there are now three versions of Microsoft Office out in the wild—Office 2016, Office 365, and the brand-new Office 2019.
If you’re curious about this new version of Microsoft Office, we’ve put together this guide to answer the biggest questions about Office 2019, such as how it differs from Office 2016 and Office 365, what features are (and aren’t) included, and when you can actually use it.
Microsoft Office 2019 Mac Crack is a standalone, local (not cloud-based, like Office 365) version of the Microsoft Office software suite. It is a “perpetual” release, which is just a fancy way of saying you buy the software once and own it forever, rather than having to pay an annual subscription fee to access it. That said, you only get a license to use it on a single PC, whereas a subscription to Office 365 lets you use it on a PC, a tablet, and a smartphone.
Microsoft is releasing Office 2019 for Windows and Mac today. The update is designed for businesses and consumers that haven’t opted into Microsoft’s Office 365 service with monthly feature. To provide you with the best experience, Office for Mac is changing to support Apple’s three most recent versions of macOS.With the release of macOS 10.14 Mojave, Office 365 for Mac and Office 2019 for Mac will support macOS 10.14, 10.13, and 10.12. Microsoft is releasing Office 2019 for Windows and Mac today.The update is designed for businesses and consumers that haven't opted into Microsoft's Office 365 service with monthly feature updates.
This new release updates and replaces the 2016 versions of Word, Excel, etc. and includes many of the new features that have been rolled out to Office 365 users over the past three years. We’ll get to those in a bit.
Note:
Requirements for Microsoft Office 365, 2019
Video: Microsoft data center: Undersea project to bring cloud servers closer to people
Two months after rolling out to commercial testers its Office 2019 for Windows preview, Microsoft is delivering a test build of its Mac counterpart.
Read also: Apple makes iTunes available in the Microsoft Store
Microsoft is releasing on June 12 a preview of Office 2019 for Mac, which includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and OneNote. It's the next 'perpetual' update to Office on Mac. Perpetual means this won't require an Office 365 subscription and will be available for purchase to run on a single device once it rolls out in the second half of 2018.
Like Office 2019 for Windows, Office 2019 for Mac includes features that Microsoft already has delivered to Office 365 ProPlus customers. Among the new features:
Office 2019 for Mac also will include: IT-targeted features, like command-line tools for controlling how and when Office updates are applied to users' devices; and support for mobile-device-management and organization-wide security policies, including Visual Basic macros and app settings.
Office 2019 for Mac is supported on the two most recent versions of macOS. Office 2019 for Mac and Office 2016 for Mac cannot run concurrently on either Windows or Mac machines.
A full list of new features for Office 2019 for Mac is available on the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) page.
The Office 2019 for Mac preview, like the Windows variant, is meant to be tested by business users with volume-license agreements with Microsoft, not consumers, as the FAQ page notes.
Read also: Apple started making iPad because Jobs 'hated' a Microsoft exec (CNET)
The previews for Microsoft's next release of its on-premises/perpetual Office Servers (Exchange Server 2019, SharePoint Server 2019, Project Server 2019, and Skype for Business Server 2019) are expected sometime in the next few months.