Microsoft to Launch Next Office for Mac in Second Half of 2014

Microsoft now a days aforesaid that it might launch a brand new version of workplace for mackintosh before the tip of the year, however will not discuss details till the half of 2014.

In AN interview with Computerwoche -- virtually, "Computerweek" -- a Microsoft Deutschland official aforesaid that workplace for mackintosh had been delayed as a result of the event team, dubbed the Macintosh Business Unit (MacBU), had been doubled into the larger Microsoft Business Unit (MBU), the division liable for workplace on Windows, within the half-moon of 2011.

Thorsten Hbschen, business cluster lead for Microsoft workplace in Deutschland, spoke to Computerwoche -- like Computerworld in hand by IDG -- at CeBit 2014, the huge pc fair running on in Hanover, Germany.Hbschen aforesaid Microsoft would reveal a lot of info concerning workplace for mackintosh within the half of this year.

The next workplace for mackintosh is already late by past Microsoft observe. the typical timespan between workplace for mackintosh editions -- going back as way as workplace v. X -- has been one,088 days. however as of nowadays, it's been one,232 days since the launch of workplace for mackintosh 2011.

Historically, Microsoft has hewn to a three-year development cycle for each workplace on the mackintosh and also the far-more-popular workplace suite for Windows, with a brand new version of the previous following the most recent of the latter by many months at a minimum.

Office for mackintosh 2011, for example, followed workplace 2010 on Windows by 134 days, or simply over four months. workplace for mackintosh 2008, however, came 351 days, or nearly a year, when the debut of its Windows sib, workplace 2007. however even the longer lag time of the latter has been exceeded: workplace 2013 for Windows launched Jan. 29, 2013, 406 days agone.

It's possible that consequent workplace for Apple's OS X are going to be titled "Office for mackintosh 2015," as Microsoft usually slaps consequent year's date on AN workplace edition that launches within the half of a civil year.

If Microsoft waits till later this year to ship workplace for mackintosh 2015, it'll be cutting it close: The Redmond, Wash., company supports mackintosh editions of workplace for simply 5 years, 0.5 the support lifecycle of the Windows' suite, and workplace for mackintosh 2011's retirement date is ready for Jan. 12, 2016. Customers could have very little quite a year to migrate to the most recent edition before Microsoft stops fixing workplace for mackintosh 2011.

Microsoft additionally shuttered  the mackintosh Office-specific web log it maintained for years at the location wherever it touts and sells the productivity suite. "As of nowadays, no new posts can seem," the web log expressed Mon. Future posts are going to be revealed on the a lot of inclusive  workplace Blogs web site, wherever workplace on Windows and workplace 365 dominate.

The MacBU web log closing was a part of a Gregorian calendar month refresh of all Microsoft's blogs that targeted on workplace topics, a corporation spokesperson aforesaid.

Microsoft neither confirmed nor denied Hbschen's comments on workplace for mackintosh unleash temporal order. "The team is difficult at work on consequent version of workplace for mackintosh," the spokesperson aforesaid in AN emailed reply to queries.