In spite of being viewed as the "other guys" in
some Mac users' minds, Microsoft has generally put out an excellent
productivity suite for the Mac with Microsoft Office. Though the latest package
is still not on par with the Windows version (you get only the four main
programs--a big difference when you consider the Windows version has 10),
Microsoft made a big leap with this latest version for the Mac in several other
ways. Not only has it nearly reached feature parity (and cross compatibility)
with the Mac counterparts to Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, but it has finally
added Outlook, the e-mail and scheduling client Mac business fans have been
clamoring for years
Once we dug deep into the feature set of Office 2011 for Mac,
we saw there were several enhancements that made the whole suite better, and
some of the niftier tweaks are even Mac-exclusive. Certainly many Mac users
will look first at Apple's work for a productivity suite, and it is a great
office suite in its own right. But if you work with primarily Windows users who
use Office, it's tough to beat the automatic compatibility of using the same
programs. Add the ease of compatibility with a strong feature set across the
entire suite and you have a desktop office package that's almost a must-have in
both large and small businesses, and even home productivity settings.
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