Microsoft Office 11 is designed to support Apple’s Macintosh and this development focuses on PowerPoint. Previously, Microsoft Office for Macintosh had been built and its primary release was in 1989, before Office was introduced for Windows. Over the years after the first release, Windows kept rolling out Office for Mac with developed features.
Regarding this Office 11 release, the public seems to be expecting the development of Office for their Mac, especially the improved ability for PowerPoint. If you are one of the expectant for this upcoming Microsoft Office, there are some details regarding this software you may want to know.
Microsoft has developed Office 11’s performance, thus this Microsoft Office works more optimally for Mac 2011. The company admitted that PowerPoint is the targeted purpose for the entire development, although there are other primary features presented. This newest version of Office is said to also meet other productivity applications such as Word and Excel.
Accordingly, this new version is designed with a similar interface to Office 2007 and 2010, like the involvement of Ribbon. Some features are engineered to be compatible with Mac applications, such as the new version of Outlook which is written using Mac OS X’s Cocoa API, support for Visual Basic for Applications macros and full support for Exchange 2007.
Although Microsoft Office 11 is Windows’ latest version, this application lacks ActiveX controls and it also doesn’t support email message attachments in Rich Text format and it misses the OpenDocument Format.
The arrival of Office 11 presents two editions: Home & Student that supports Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, whereas the Home & Business edition also provides the same features above with other additions like Outlook and increased support. Both editions carry Microsoft Messenger 8 and Microsoft Communicator for Mac 2011.
Furthermore, this Office 2011 comes in 6 beta versions. More interestingly, Windows Live SkyDrive and Office Web Apps have been included so you will be able to edit documents over the website. Indeed, Microsoft seems to truly listen to its customers.