The ribbon interface now more closely resembles the one in Office 2013 for Windows-Office for Mac 2011 was closer to its Windows counterpart than older versions, but it still looked like a product from another company. The new apps take the styling introduced in OneNote and Outlook for OS X and apply it to the other apps in the suite. There may be some kind of standalone version available for those who want it, but Microsoft hasn't said. Once the final versions of the apps ship 'in the second half of 2015,' users with Office 365 subscriptions will get the new apps immediately.
The preview runs on OS X Yosemite, it's free to use, and it includes a tool for providing feedback to Microsoft. Microsoft has just released a preview of Office 2016 for Mac, a suite which will include the current versions of Outlook and OneNote alongside newly updated versions of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Microsoft released a new version of Outlook and an official OneNote client, but the core Word, Excel, and PowerPoint apps were stuck back in 2010. The Office for OS X apps were left behind, though. Further Reading New, free OneNote for OS X is a preview of the next Office for Mac appsįor the last 12 months, Microsoft has focused on getting its flagship Office suite on screens where it's never been before- iPhones, iPads, and Android tablets.
