![]() ![]() Outlook: a personal information manager with email capabilities, task manager, contact manager, note taking, and journal.Excel: a spreadsheet with calculation, graphing tools, pivot tables, and a macro programming language called Visual Basic for Applications.Word: a word processor with rudimentary desktop publishing capabilities.It includes Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, OneNote, OneDrive, and Skype. The latest version of Microsoft Office for Mac, Microsoft Office 2016, features the flat design and tabbed user interface that were introduced in Microsoft Office 2013. Components of Microsoft Office for Mac 2016 Since the version 15.25, Microsoft Office for Mac has become exclusively a 64-bit application, breaking compatibility with old Mac computers with 32-bit processors. Today, there’s very little difference between Microsoft Office for Mac and Microsoft Office for Windows. It also included Microsoft PowerPoint 98, Microsoft Word 98, and Microsoft Excel 98. It was re-engineered by Microsoft’s Macintosh Business Unit and introduced the Internet Explorer 4.0 browser and Outlook Express. The first Mac version, called Microsoft Office 98 Macintosh Edition, wasn’t released until, you’ve guessed it, 1998. Microsoft Office was first released in 1990 for Windows 95. The question on many Mac users’ lips seems to be, “Should I pay for Microsoft Office for Mac or use one of its many free alternatives?” In this article, we attempt to answer this question and give you all the information you need to download, install, and start using Microsoft Office for Mac - if you decide that it’s a good choice for you. I am going to get an M1 Mac Mini sometime over the next month and will go with 256 gb internal and 16 gb RAM.Microsoft Office is the most popular suite of productivity applications in the world, and it runs on Mac computers just as well as it does on Windows machines. I have been using less than 256gb internal for over 20 years. Of course, someone will tell me I am wrong, and fine. ![]() Quality will vary, sure, but you can at least get a decent, fast, 1 terabyte external drive for the same price as the upgrade. You can get terabytes of external storage for the cost of what Apple charges to move up to 512gb from 256. You have a large music and/or video library? Put that shteez onto an external drive. So much is in the cloud these days and apps are becoming more and more web based. I earned my MS in Bioinformatics a few years ago and even back then everything was remote. If you are a hardcore gamer, you are not on Macs, anyways, so moot. If you are currently in the process of becoming a video editor, er, content creator (barf), then max out to what you can afford. You need to ask yourself what you are using your Mac mini for today, not what you plan on using it for in the future. ![]()
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