When sharing documents, you won’t have to worry about losing content or formatting, as Office for Mac offers unparalleled compatibility with Office on PCs, tablets, phones and online. New, built-in document sharing tools make it easy to invite teammates to work on a document together. Office for Mac is cloud-connected, so you can quickly get to the documents you’ve recently used on other devices and pick up where you left off. With full Retina display support, your Office documents look sharper and more vibrant than ever. Mac users will appreciate the modernized Office experience and the integration of Mac capabilities like Full-Screen view and Multi-TouchTM gestures. It works the way you expect, with the familiar ribbon interface and powerful task panes. If you already use Office on a PC or iPad, you will find yourself right at home in Office 2016 for Mac. The new versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and OneNote provide the best of both worlds for Mac users - the familiar Office experience paired with the best of Mac. Microsoft Office 2016 - Unmistakably Office, designed for Mac. For more information, see End of support for Office 2016 for Mac.

That changes to an 85/15 split in subsequent years.Note: Support for Office 2016 for Mac ended on October 13, 2020. Though the financial arrangements between the two companies are still not known completely, in the standard split for subscriptions, the company gets 70 per cent of the price the first year with Apple getting 30 per cent for hosting fees. The new collaboration also wraps the subscription process into an integrated Mac experience where installation and updates all happen in a way one expects with macOS. According to Microsoft, it didn’t want to alter the experience by forcing customers to download each one individually as until now, customers could directly go to Microsoft or another retail outlet to subscribe to the same bundle. Microsoft sells Office 365 subscriptions as a package of applications, one of the features that Apple brought specifically in working with Microsoft as it was mandatory in order to bring Office 365 to the Mac App Store. The package will include Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and OneNote. Apple has finally added Microsoft Office to the Mac App Store.

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