That's right, over 3 months since it was first released and ahead of Macworld 2011, Microsot have finally released a 30 day trial their flagship office and productivity suite of software for the Mac, Office 2011.
I've been using it for over a month though and its a vast improvement on the previous version (2008) and brings many of the features available to our PC cousins to the Mac. Most notibly Outlook replaces Entourage for the first time.
First impressions? I personally prefer iWork on the Mac for word processing, spreadsheets and presentations. Having using Office for nearly 2 decades I found the PC versions bloated and iWork is a refreshing change. That said if you need to integrate with Exchange or like me work with colleagues using PC's then having a native version of both Word and Outlook is a great help.
There are issues though, although in my case this is very specific to my working environment. However the introduction of the evaluation is a great thing to see and allow people to fully evaluate the software before they take the plunge.
For those that are interested, the two main issues I have is Outlooks inability to add events to public calendars, something the PC version is more than happy with and the Document Connectors issues with some SharePoint libraries. Other than that its a solid product and I use if for 95% of my work.
Download the evaluation and give it a go!
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