#Microsoft office 360 outlook for mac for mac#

As per Office 365's premise, subscribers will not be charged for the upgrade - although they must continue to pay the annual or monthly fees. On the same blog, Microsoft said that it would issue a public beta of 'the next version of Office for Mac' in the first half of 2015, and ship the final code in the second half of the year. And they'll have to pay for the privilege.

#Microsoft office 360 outlook for mac for mac#

Those who purchased Office for Mac 2011 as a perpetual license, the familiar pay-once-use-forever model that still dominates sales, will have to wait months to get their hands on the new Outlook. Computerworld was able to install, activate and use the new Outlook - which Microsoft has assigned version number 15 - with only minor disturbances to an already-in-place Outlook 2011. Microsoft said that customers could run the new Outlook alongside the existing Outlook bundled as part of Office for Mac 2011, the four-year-old suite that will drop off the firm's support list in January 2016. 'The new Outlook for Mac is available to Office 365 commercial customers and Office 365 Home, Office 365 Personal and Office 365 University subscribers,' wrote the Office team in a blog post announcing Outlook's availability. Those subscriptions cost $80 for a four-year deal for college students, between $70 and $100 annually for consumers, and between $99 and $264 per user per year for businesses. Only customers with an active Office 365 subscription can download the refreshed Outlook for OS X. But the company took a different tack today because of its emphasis on the rent-not-buy subscription model that it's aggressively pushed since January 2013. Typically Microsoft rolls out a new edition of Office as a complete package, with all-new - or mostly-new - applications rather than release bits piecemeal.

'This looks like it will be a journey, an evolution over the next year or so for Office on the Mac.' company's approach to software development. 'Microsoft likes to say 'It's a journey,'' said Miller of the Redmond, Wash.