Craig Federighi He already amazed us at the WWDC keynote last June with how advanced the (already reality) Apple Silicon project was. And he explained that big developers like Microsoft and Adobe were already working with their applications to adapt them to the new Apple processors.
And he didn't fool us. Microsoft has just announced that today it will launch a new beta version of Mac Office 2019 with support for Apple Silicon. It is not the final version, but it shows that Microsoft is willing to get on this new high-speed train that Apple has just launched, and that it presented this week. Good news, no doubt.
Microsoft has just announced that today it will release a beta version of its Office 2019 suite compatible with Apple Silicon. Quite a declaration of intent by the Windows developer, who does not want to turn his back on this new Apple adventure.
In the presentation of the Apple Silicon project last June, Craig Federighi already explained to us that great developers such as Microsoft and Adobe were already working on rewriting their software to run natively on Apple's new ARM processors, without the need to resort to Rosetta.
Rosetta is the emulator that incorporates Big Sur macOS, which makes current x86-encoded applications for Intel processors also work on Apple's new M1 processor with ARM architecture, very different from Intel.
A version of Office that will run directly on the M1 processor
Apple ensures that applications running through Rosetta will not be affected in terms of performance and stability. But let's face it: a software that runs through an emulator is not the same as one that runs directly on the processor without needing to be 'translated'.
MSFT plans to push a Universal build of Mac Office 2019 to the Beta Channel (formerly “Insider Fast”) by the end of today.
We don't have a public date or version for a final release; this is an initial peek for customers to test on hardware they may be acquiring this week… 🙂
- Erik Schwiebert (@Schwieb) November 11, 2020
Microsoft Software Engineer for Apple Products, Erik schwiebert ha release Today on Twitter that a version of Office 2019 beta for Mac is going to be released today with support for Apple Silicon. For now, there is no specific release date for the final version.
Without a doubt, this is great news for Apple and its users. If from now on your computers will have their own processors, with enormous benefits in terms of performance and efficiency, with all the Apple software support behind, and on top of that accompanied by great developers such as Microsoft or AdobeWith its Office and Photoshop packages recoded for the M1, success is assured.