The beta of Microsoft Office 2016 for Mac appears by surprise and you can now download it

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Microsoft has just released the free public beta version of its office suite, Microsoft Office 2016 for Mac. This preview of the suite includes Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Outlook and OneNote, no more, no less, and they are without doubt the most used productivity applications of the entire package.

Specifically, Office 2016 has all the features of Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint that we hope to find from previous versions as well as new ones, including better storage support in the cloud to be able to save and access our files from anywhere, now be it via the web, another Mac / PC or even from an iOS device. In addition, this preliminary version of Office 2016 is compatible with Office 2011, so if you were wondering, there is no problem because both versions coexist together.

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On the other hand, the user interface has undergone a revision and comes with a redesign that further marries the «Metro» philosophy Windows but does not neglect the style of OS X. The Office suite will remain free as long as the applications are within the public beta period. It must be taken into account that each of these applications must be updated because they have a limited life, that is, after downloading the complete package and installing it, the build of each of the applications that compose it will have a life limited to 60 days if it is not updated periodically.

To prevent this from happening, an automatic update tool has been included that will notify you when a new update is available for download. For now, and in the absence of confirmation from Microsoft, it seems that the version "release candidate" or final preview will remain active until a month after the final version is released about the middle of this year, for this reason users who want to follow using the suite, they will have to pay for such final software.

This version requires OS X 10.10 Yosemite to work, if you meet the requirement and after all the comments you are still interested in trying this beta version, you can download it from the following link.


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  1.   Adan miranda said

    Disgusting that it is only for Yosemite, which so far is a version quite unstable and full of glitchs, I expected that minimum requires Mavericks = /

  2.   Globetrotter65 said

    I have downloaded it, but if it is going to be paid, I prefer the cloud suite, which in itself is quite complete (enough for simple and basic things). If this is an attraction to sell the binomial Drive / 365 and the hosting in the cloud, it is understandable; but what i am noticing is having cloud options with google, microsoft, icloud. enough and enough.

  3.   Jesus Arjona Montalvo said

    Downloading, thank you very much Miguel Ángel.

  4.   crafts and quartz said

    Before it let me save powerpoint in images now nothing anyone knows why