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. A new minor update for Office 2011 for Mac adds activation support for use as part of Microsoft's newest Office 365 subscription services. Save 25% on Adobe Creative Cloud for a year.

These are the same full desktop Office applications you’d get if you purchased the standard boxed copies of Office, but they also have the advantage of getting more frequent feature updates. And yes, you can use them offline—your PC or Mac just has to appear online once every 30 days to keep them activated. You can download the apps by heading to, signing in and clicking “Install Office apps.” On a phone or tablet, download the Office apps from Apple’s App Store or Google Play and sign in with your Microsoft account.

You’ll get an error message: It’s not nice. People are forced to to check one or the other, so the accounts don’t fight with each other. You can see IT pros complaining about the confusing setup, among other places.

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If you have both a Microsoft account and an Office 365 account, they will sometimes cause conflicts because Microsoft is not handling them well behind the scenes. Open up your Office 365 business webmail, then try to go check your personal Outlook.com webmail. You’ll get an error message: It’s not nice. People are forced to to check one or the other, so the accounts don’t fight with each other.

The feedback has been less than kind. You've just upgraded to the most recent version of Windows 10. Before you get back to work, use this checklist to ensure that your privacy and security settings are correct and that you've cut annoyances to a bare minimum. Bowing to pressure from enterprise administrators, Microsoft has extended its Windows 10 support cycle yet again. Today's announcements effectively create a Linux-like Long Term Support version for customers that pay for Enterprise upgrades. Microsoft's much-hyped free upgrade offer for Windows 10 ended in 2016, right? The GWX tool may be gone, but all the other upgrade tools still work.

Buying or renewing Office 365 from Microsoft will cost you the highest price possible. Turn off Auto-Renewal Microsoft pushes the Office 365 auto-renewal option very hard, not because it’s ‘convenient’ to customers. Auto renewal is a great profit maker for Microsoft because they get to charge the highest price for Office 365, with no retailers margin and on the first date that it’s due. Microsoft’s accountants can not only count on getting the highest price from Office 365 plans, but they can plan ahead knowing how much money will be incoming each day. We call Office 365 auto-renewal the. Renew separately Despite what Microsoft implies, you don’t have to renew Office 365 online directly with Microsoft.

Most business plans also offer Outlook on the web. On mobile devices, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook are available for iOS and Android; these allow viewing and editing capabilities when you sign in with an active subscription.

Same password of course. No, it isn’t. Somehow, against all odds I located my Microsoft account password (I had not used it in a few years), and behold, Cortana activated, file search contents returned. This issue is so severely inconvenient, that I put in the ‘amateurish’ category. I’ll spend no more time determining the “why” (I don;t care why).

Two different systems and nothing ties them together yet. Hi Bruce, stumbled on your site, it opens up a new field of Microsoft stupidity. Mkv player for mac. Have long used Diane Poremskys site, but at the end of the day not getting any closer to a solution.

Microsoft made available this week product which includes some fixes, plus activation support so that it can be installed as part of Microsoft's newest Office 365 subscription offerings. Those who want to use Office for Mac 2011 as or can grab this update, which is designated as. It requires Mac OS X version 10.5.8 or later.