Microsoft Stop Support For Office 2011 For Mac

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Re: End of mainstream support on Office for Mac 2011 You forgot to mention this includes removing 2011 from the activation servers. Fraudulant Mac for home and business is a product still being sold on the market.

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Microsoft has significantly extended support for Office software, 'Office for Mac 2011'. Originally, the company wanted to deploy updates for Office 2011 only until January 2016. Now the support period was extended by one and a half years. According to Microsoft, Software Updates will still be released until October 2017.

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Thereafter you can continue to use Office 2011 without restriction, but no Security Updates to eliminate Errors and Vulnerabilities will be released, which can be a security risk in companies that use the software. With “Office for Mac 2016” Microsoft made this month (07/2015) the successor of Office 2011 available. Currently, Office 2016 can only be rented via a Subscription of Office 365, a paid version will follow, according to Microsoft, in September 2015. Office 2016 provides a revised Version which is getting closer to the Windows version with its user interface & it got optimized for the latest Mac operating system.

Microsoft Stopped Support For Office 2011 For Mac

Word, Excel and PowerPoint have been converted to the Cocoa framework and support the 64-bit mode (Outlook is for some time offering already 64-bit support), multi-touch gestures and high-resolution retina displays. And there are also numerous other innovations.

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That versions 15.34 and earlier are not supported, and you may not be able to launch the apps. You are advised to update to 15.35 or later, but even that’s no guarantee. Not all Office functionality may be available, and you may encounter stability problems where apps unexpectedly quit. During the beta period for macOS 10.13 High Sierra, no formal support is available for this Office configuration. We strongly recommend that you back up your existing data before trying the software.

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If you encounter issues using Office 2016 for Mac on High Sierra, please send us feedback so we can address them. The company also advises that support for the 2011 suite ends next month – including security updates. All applications in the Office for Mac 2011 suite are reaching end of support on October 10th, 2017. As a reminder, after that date there will be no new security updates, non-security updates, free or paid assisted support options or technical content updates.

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Notes that Mac users of get second-class service from the company, offered only five years of security updates instead of the ten years given to Windows users, alongside often long-delayed porting of new features.