Messenger for Mac 6.0.3 has released to the web. Allow me to share one item for those of you aggressive enough to be playing with Office Communications Server 2007 – this is not the client for Mac allowing you to experience the new rich presence.

1. Messenger for Mac 6.0.3 has released to the web. Allow me to share one item for those of you aggressive enough to be playing with Office Communications Server 2007 – this is not the client for Mac allowing you to experience the new rich presence.
2. Office 365 customers get the new Office for Mac first. You’ll have Office applications on your Mac or PC, apps on tablets and smartphones for when you're on the go, and Office Online on the web for everywhere in between.

Publisher's Description

Messenger for Mac is an integrated communications client that enables you to communicate with contacts within and outside your organization. It is a Universal application that is built to run on both PowerPC-based and Intel-based Macs and makes it easy to take advantage of the full power of real-time communications.

What a joke... feature wise this is a disaster.
C'mon... Microsoft, one of the biggest if not the biggest corporation in the world... and they can't even get their cousin Messenger client right!
I bet it's a tactic to get ppl to go bak to Windows...
Most ppl use Mac simply to keep away from Widows. So I don't see it being all that effective.
They'll just use another Mac client.

Messenger on the Mac is about as useful as Safari on the PC....What a joke, this is as bad as yahoo's mac offering. Adium is all you really have until it becomes easier to use Pidgin on a mac, but I personally dislike Adium for many reasons.
Jabber anyone? You can always just use gmail chat to talk to your contacts through transports if you don't want to use a client (though this will temporarily require psi or an equivalent to add the transport to your gmail/jabber account)

Installed it. Feature-wise there isn’t much new features added compare to its Windows counterpart. And the download/upload transfer speed is still disastrous again compared to its Windows cousin.

While this one apparently has audio and video included, they seem to be restricted to corporate accounts. It's better than it was, but it's definitely not a good solution, still.
I'll continue to use Mercury Messenger for video, although the latest Yahoo! Messenger beta (5 distinct beta releases in almost 3 years?) has voice capabilities and the ability to talk to Windows Live clients.

Microsoft Messenger For Mac Downloads

Terrible release! No support for nickname, video and proper offline sorting.
Seems like this is a desperate release to keep the Mac community at bay again.
Use Adium X instead!

Yesterday I downloaded MSN Messenger for Mac OS X 5.0 because some of my friends have it. What a nightmare. I had a .NET passport a long time ago with an old email and wanted to change it, but every link I clicked on was either dead or misdirected. I tried changing my profile through Preferences/Member Services, but instead of taking me to a web page it showed me the source code! I send an email to them for help but the first thing they said was to click on a link, which of course took me to a '404' page. How can any website be so malfunctional, especially by a big name? My only beef with AIM and YIM is being unable to send files, but I don't do a lot of that anyway.

meh this is perthetic!! microsoft boast about taking advantage of the power of msn yeh for what multiple file sharing and faster instant messenging. pshh like we do that much like i hardley fil share only accationally and isnt the instant meserging fast enouth? microsoft is wasting my time and everyones time why are they using the power for that anyway weres the webcam were the audio support becuase then the power would be worth while and not spent on a jumble of letters. im sick and tired of all my freinds having pcs becinag able to speak to each other and see each other while i have to spend hours finding programs that support that wiv microsoft. i reckon if u do webcam/audio support u may beat ichat becuase the ull e taking big advantage of what msn is capible of and everyone will be using it!! it dont really take a rocket scentist to figure that out?

The consistency of disappointing messenger products for macs from Microsoft is a clear indication of their inability to give the consumer what it wants. Yahoo and AOL have had their ducks in a row for years. What exactly changed besides them going from a really bloated “msn” messenger to a slightly skinnier “Microsoft” messenger. A change in themes shouldn’t warrant a new version. If that’s all the genius barn over in Redmond can come up with, this will be the last Microsoft “release” I download for quite some time.

MSN messenger in general sucks. I'm all for mac support (I'm really a mac person at heart... even though I'm on a PC... most of the time) but I'm against anything MSN. AIM and Yahoo do everything that MSN does plus more... and they're a LOT less annoying. It took me a week to figure out a way to uninstall MSN messenger from my PC. It's like adware that some people actually want to download.
And by the way, AIM really isn't bad. you can install it without all their dumb extra features (AOL browser, toolbar, etc) and then it's really quite useful. Yahoo, on the other hand... it's one of the glitchiest programs I've ever used... and a word of warning, do NOT download the new version 7. It's even worse.

This is the Microsoft try to make OS X unconfortable, ugly and obsolete.
Fortunatly you have great alternatives, like Adiumx that works great for icq, yahoo, m$n and networks that you never heard of :D
In fact, if you bought a Mac, is a bad idea to load any M$ software. They are worse than the already buggy Windows ones, and that's too much.
M$N me$$enger sucks
Virtual PC Sucks (version 6 worked great, then, M$ bought and ruined it with version 7)
Office 2004: It sucks, is pretty slow and hang like hell.
Microsoft: Please make more hardware. Your hardware rules, and your software sucks (too much).

What a joke... feature wise this is a disaster.
C'mon... Microsoft, one of the biggest if not the biggest corporation in the world... and they can't even get their cousin Messenger client right!
I bet it's a tactic to get ppl to go bak to Windows...
Most ppl use Mac simply to keep away from Widows. So I don't see it being all that effective.
They'll just use another Mac client.

Messenger on the Mac is about as useful as Safari on the PC....What a joke, this is as bad as yahoo's mac offering. Adium is all you really have until it becomes easier to use Pidgin on a mac, but I personally dislike Adium for many reasons.
Jabber anyone? You can always just use gmail chat to talk to your contacts through transports if you don't want to use a client (though this will temporarily require psi or an equivalent to add the transport to your gmail/jabber account)

Installed it. Feature-wise there isn’t much new features added compare to its Windows counterpart. And the download/upload transfer speed is still disastrous again compared to its Windows cousin.

While this one apparently has audio and video included, they seem to be restricted to corporate accounts. It's better than it was, but it's definitely not a good solution, still.
I'll continue to use Mercury Messenger for video, although the latest Yahoo! Messenger beta (5 distinct beta releases in almost 3 years?) has voice capabilities and the ability to talk to Windows Live clients.

Terrible release! No support for nickname, video and proper offline sorting.
Seems like this is a desperate release to keep the Mac community at bay again.
Use Adium X instead!

Yesterday I downloaded MSN Messenger for Mac OS X 5.0 because some of my friends have it. What a nightmare. I had a .NET passport a long time ago with an old email and wanted to change it, but every link I clicked on was either dead or misdirected. I tried changing my profile through Preferences/Member Services, but instead of taking me to a web page it showed me the source code! I send an email to them for help but the first thing they said was to click on a link, which of course took me to a '404' page. How can any website be so malfunctional, especially by a big name? My only beef with AIM and YIM is being unable to send files, but I don't do a lot of that anyway.

meh this is perthetic!! microsoft boast about taking advantage of the power of msn yeh for what multiple file sharing and faster instant messenging. pshh like we do that much like i hardley fil share only accationally and isnt the instant meserging fast enouth? microsoft is wasting my time and everyones time why are they using the power for that anyway weres the webcam were the audio support becuase then the power would be worth while and not spent on a jumble of letters. im sick and tired of all my freinds having pcs becinag able to speak to each other and see each other while i have to spend hours finding programs that support that wiv microsoft. i reckon if u do webcam/audio support u may beat ichat becuase the ull e taking big advantage of what msn is capible of and everyone will be using it!! it dont really take a rocket scentist to figure that out?

The consistency of disappointing messenger products for macs from Microsoft is a clear indication of their inability to give the consumer what it wants. Yahoo and AOL have had their ducks in a row for years. What exactly changed besides them going from a really bloated “msn” messenger to a slightly skinnier “Microsoft” messenger. A change in themes shouldn’t warrant a new version. If that’s all the genius barn over in Redmond can come up with, this will be the last Microsoft “release” I download for quite some time.

MSN messenger in general sucks. I'm all for mac support (I'm really a mac person at heart... even though I'm on a PC... most of the time) but I'm against anything MSN. AIM and Yahoo do everything that MSN does plus more... and they're a LOT less annoying. It took me a week to figure out a way to uninstall MSN messenger from my PC. It's like adware that some people actually want to download.
And by the way, AIM really isn't bad. you can install it without all their dumb extra features (AOL browser, toolbar, etc) and then it's really quite useful. Yahoo, on the other hand... it's one of the glitchiest programs I've ever used... and a word of warning, do NOT download the new version 7. It's even worse.

Microsoft Messenger Download

This is the Microsoft try to make OS X unconfortable, ugly and obsolete.
Fortunatly you have great alternatives, like Adiumx that works great for icq, yahoo, m$n and networks that you never heard of :D
In fact, if you bought a Mac, is a bad idea to load any M$ software. They are worse than the already buggy Windows ones, and that's too much.
M$N me$$enger sucks
Virtual PC Sucks (version 6 worked great, then, M$ bought and ruined it with version 7)
Office 2004: It sucks, is pretty slow and hang like hell.
Microsoft: Please make more hardware. Your hardware rules, and your software sucks (too much).

Eh, it's not that big of a deal, I think I am switching back to Adium. In addition, it appears sort of bulky.

Pathetic! No webcam/audio support, just new emoticons and support for MSN always changing protocol. Shall we wait until version 6?

Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 is a version of the Microsoft Officeproductivity suite for Mac OS X. It is the successor to Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac and is comparable to Office 2010 for Windows. Office 2011 was followed by Microsoft Office 2016 for Mac released on September 22, 2015, requiring a Mac with an x64 Intel processor and OS X Yosemite or later.

New features[edit]

Microsoft Office 2011 includes more robust enterprise support and greater feature parity with the Windows edition. Its interface is now more similar to Office 2007 and 2010 for Windows, with the addition of the ribbon. Support for Visual Basic for Applications macros has returned after having been dropped in Office 2008.^[4][5] Purchasing the Home Premium version of Office for Mac will not allow telephone support automatically to query any problems with the VBA interface. There are however, apparently, according to Microsoft Helpdesk, some third party applications that can address problems with the VBA interface with Office for Mac.^{[citation needed]} In addition, Office 2011 supports online collaboration tools such as OneDrive and Office Web Apps, allowing Mac and Windows users to simultaneously edit documents over the web. It also includes limited support for Apple's high-density Retina Displays, allowing the display of sharp text and images, although most icons within applications themselves are not optimized for this.

A new version of Microsoft Outlook, written using Mac OS X's Cocoa API, returns to the Mac for the first time since 2001 and has full support for Microsoft Exchange Server 2007.^[6] It replaces Entourage, which was included in Office 2001, X, 2004 and 2008 for Mac.^[7]

Limitations[edit]

Office for Mac 2011 has a number of limitations compared to Office 2010 for Windows. It does not support ActiveX controls,^[8] or OpenDocument Format.^[9][10] It also cannot handle attachments in Rich Text Format e-mail messages sent from Outlook for Windows, which are delivered as winmail.dat attachments.^{[citation needed]} It also has several human language limitations, such as lack of support for right-to-left languages such as Arabic, Persian, and Hebrew ^[11] and automatic language detection. ^[12]

Microsoft does not support CalDAV and CardDAV in Outlook, so there is no way to sync directly Outlook through iCloud. Outlook also does not allow the user to disable Cached Exchange Mode, unlike the Windows version, and it is therefore not possible to connect to an Exchange Server without downloading a local cache of mail and calendar data. ^[13]

Office for Mac 2011 also has a shorter lifecycle than Office 2010, with support phasing out on October 10, 2017.^[14] As 32-bit software, it will not run on macOS Catalina, released in 2019.^[15]

Editions[edit]

Two editions are available to the general public. Home & Student provides Word, Excel and PowerPoint, while Home & Business adds Outlook and increased support.^[16]Microsoft Messenger 8 is included with both editions, and Microsoft Communicator for Mac 2011, which communicates with Microsoft Lync Server, is available only to volume licensing customers.^[17] Office 2011 requires an Intel Mac running Mac OS X 10.5.8 or later.^[18]

The Home & Student edition is available in a single license for one computer and a family pack for three computers. The Home & Business edition is available in a single license for one computer and a multi-pack for two computers. The Standard edition is only available through Volume Licensing.^[19] The Academic edition was created for higher education students, staff and faculty, and includes one installation.^[20] Office for Mac is also available as part of Microsoft's Office 365 subscription programme.

Development[edit]

Microsoft announced Office 2011 in 2009.^[21] There were 6 beta versions released:

• Beta 1
• Beta 2 (Version 14.0.0, Build 100326)
• Beta 3 (Build 100519)—announced on May 25, 2010^[22]
• Beta 4 (Build 100526)
• Beta 5 (Build 100709)
• Beta 6 (Build 100802)

Access to beta versions was by invitation only,^[23] although leaked copies were circulated among Mac file sharing websites.^[24]

The final version was released to manufacturing on September 10, 2010,^[25] was available to volume license customers a day later,^[26] and made available to the general public on October 26, 2010.^[27] Service Pack 1 was released on April 12, 2011.^[28]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

1. ^https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=55942
2. ^'Microsoft Lifecycle Policy: Office 2011'. Support. Microsoft. Retrieved February 21, 2018.
3. ^'Microsoft Lifecycle Policy: Lync 2011'. Support. Microsoft. Retrieved February 21, 2018.
4. ^Keizer, Gregg (May 14, 2008). 'Microsoft will bring back macros to Mac Office in 2011'. Computerworld. Retrieved April 21, 2010.
5. ^Seff, Jonathan (May 13, 2008). 'Microsoft to bring back Visual Basic in Office for Mac'. Macworld. Retrieved April 21, 2010.
6. ^'How to obtain support for Microsoft Outlook for Mac 2011 connectivity problems with Exchange Server'. Support (34.0 ed.). Microsoft. September 12, 2013.
7. ^Miller, Dan (February 11, 2010). 'Microsoft Announces Office for Mac 2011'. Macworld. Retrieved October 29, 2010.
8. ^'Known issues in Excel 2011'. Microsoft. September 2010. Retrieved October 29, 2010.
9. ^answer from Michel Bintener Microsoft MVP (Macintosh), Discusion in the forum of user of Microsoft Office:Mac Archived February 13, 2011, at WebCite
10. ^Office 2011: Mac-Version mit Outlook, aber ohne Opendocument, in German. Archived February 13, 2011, at WebCite
11. ^Morgenstern, David. 'Microsoft boosts languages, proofing tools in Office 2011 for Mac, Unicode right-to-left support missing'. The Apple Core. ZDNet. Retrieved November 17, 2010.
12. ^http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/mac/forum/macoffice2011-macword/how-can-i-set-word-2011-to-detect-different/ea5f2561-1ef5-4762-93a7-298c52579ab8
13. ^http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/mac/forum/macoffice2011-macoutlook/is-there-any-way-to-disable-cached-exchange-mode/fe6b090e-fdd6-4666-8e54-db9e5348428e?msgId=f34acd1e-22e3-426d-872e-bccae2821420
14. ^https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Support-is-ending-for-Office-for-Mac-2011-559b72b1-e045-4c73-bad3-d7f1841b9e8c
15. ^Haslam, Karen. 'Which Mac apps won't work in macOS Catalina?'. Macworld. Retrieved October 31, 2019.
16. ^'Office for Mac 2011—Compare'. Microsoft. Retrieved October 27, 2010.
17. ^'Announcing Communicator for Mac'. Office for Mac Blog. Microsoft. September 24, 2010. Retrieved November 4, 2010.
18. ^'Office System Requirements'. Microsoft Office for Mac. Microsoft. Retrieved November 5, 2010.
19. ^Michaels, Philip (August 2, 2010). 'Microsoft sets pricing, October release for Office 2011'. Macworld. Retrieved November 7, 2010.
20. ^'Office for Mac 2011 Hitting Store Shelves This October'. Microsoft Office Press. Microsoft. Retrieved November 19, 2010.
21. ^Snell, Jason (August 13, 2009). 'Microsoft: Next Mac Office due late 2010 with Outlook'. Macworld. Retrieved November 14, 2009.
22. ^McLean, Prince (May 25, 2010). 'Microsoft's Office 2011 beta 3 for Mac gets new icons'. AppleInsider. Retrieved October 29, 2010.
23. ^Sams, Brad (July 25, 2010). 'Office 2011 for Mac beta invites sent out'. Neowin.net. Retrieved October 29, 2010.
24. ^Paliath, Paul. 'Beta 2 of Microsoft Office 2011 leaked'. GeekSmack. Archived from the original on April 13, 2010. Retrieved April 14, 2010.
25. ^'Office for Mac 2011 hits RTM'. Office for Mac Blog. Microsoft. September 10, 2010. Retrieved November 4, 2010.
26. ^Weintraub, Seth (September 21, 2010). 'Office for Mac hits Microsoft volume licensing servers'. 9to5 Mac. Retrieved September 27, 2010.
27. ^Mac Mojo Team (September 28, 2010). 'Office for Mac 2011 in the Store This October'. Office for Mac Blog. Microsoft. Retrieved October 29, 2010.
28. ^'Microsoft Office for Mac Downloads and Updates'. Office For Mac. Microsoft. Retrieved September 16, 2011.