The new main features of Office for Mac 2010 are full integration with Office Web Apps, which offers the possibility of work on one document for more Office users and the support of new Office formats ( DOCX, XLSX, PPTX etc.) or a great multimedia gallery with a number of pre-designed templates. Even complex documents created on one platform are flawlessly opened on the other and there are no problems with spreadsheets or presentations. With the exception of Outlook, the buttons and other elements are pretty identical in both editions. In short, the Mac OS version of Microsoft Office is pretty close to what we know from Windows platform. The edition with just Excel,Word and PowerPoint is called Home & Student and it's meant for non-commercial use only. Outlook is only available in the Home & Business edition. The word processing program Word, spreadsheet database program Excel, PowerPoint for presentation and for e-mail communication a proper Outlook (no misshapen Entourage). The core of the Office for Mac suite is made up from well known application. With the latest 2011 edition the tables are turning. Microsoft Office users were more than happy since they got the 'near perfect' 2010 edition, but Office for Mac 2008 was not so awesome. No edition of Microsoft Office for Mac was so anticipated as this one. If it should be possible to flawlessly work with Office documents across both platforms, Microsoft has to offer a reliable office suite also for Mac OS X users.

Although iWork does promise 100% compatibility, its not the case for complex documents. Microsoft Office Documents are still worldwide standards. Apple started working on their office suite iWork and its pricing policy is so aggressive that Microsoft cannot afford to do possum. The market share of Apple computers is significant, in Europe is no longer negligible. Why is Microsoft trying so much to bring a perfect version of its Microsoft Office Suite to Mac OS? So did Microsoft succeed to improve their office suite for Apple fans? Definitely yes! The new version of the worldwide successful Microsoft Office suite is not only available to Microsoft Windows users (the 2010 edition), but also for to the Mac OS X users (the 2011 edition).

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