Microsoft on Thursday announced that Office 2016 for Mac — Â a totally revamped version of its venerable productivity suite — Â is now available to any Mac user with an Office 365 subscription.

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Office 2019 for Mac was launched in September 2018 as an update to Office 2016 for Mac. However, some of the new features had already been available as part of the then-called Office 365. Microsoft on Thursday announced that Office 2016 for Mac — a totally revamped version of its venerable productivity suite — is now available to any Mac user with an Office 365 subscription. Outlook 2016 for Mac integrates with a variety of different email clients, including Exchange, Office 365, Outlook.com, Hotmail, iCloud, Google, and Yahoo! This means that when you add all of your email accounts to Outlook, you can compose new messages and read and respond to email messages from one application—no need to open multiple email. How to Install Microsoft Office 2016 for Mac for Free: Microsoft has put out the free download of Office 2016 for Mac public preview, without any Office 365 subscription required.

Office 2016 Mac - Outlook will not connect to Office365 mailbox I have a user who is running MacOS Sierra and Office 2016 for Mac. Last week, his mail synchronization in Outlook stopped working and he began getting prompts to enter his password.

The updated suite includes redesigned, rewritten versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and OneNote. Each application now features a metro-style user interface, which brings the design of Microsoft's stalwart software package in line across all the platforms for which it's available.

A slew of new features have also been added, though the apps have yet to quite reach feature parity with their Windows cousins. Mac users can now invite colleagues to edit Word documents together in realtime, for instance, but crowdpleasers like Excel's Quick Analysis are still missing.

AppleInsider got an early look at the new suite in March, and we've been using them as our daily drivers since that time. The changes are almost without exception for the better, and the community interaction during development —  Microsoft says users of its preview have provided more than 100,000 pieces of feedback —  point to a renewed Microsoft commitment to the Mac.

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For now, Office 2016 for Mac is only available to users with active Office 365 subscriptions, which start at $69.99 per year. To soothe the inevitably ruffled feathers of consumers used to purchasing their software outright, Microsoft promises 'updates and new features for Office 365 customers at least once per quarter.'

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For those who still don't want to subscribe, Microsoft says that a separate version for standalone purchase will be available in September, though pricing has yet to be revealed.

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