#Office 365 mac review install#
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#Office 365 mac review Pc#
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It's painful to use, and hasn't been updated for something like four years. The Mac version of Office feels like a bad piece of shareware.

#Office 365 mac review Pc#

The PC version is not bad, but could use some improvement. Since we pay $10/month more for Office 365 than we did just for Exchange hosting, our cost for what is effectively seven Office desktop licenses is $120/year, which is a pretty fair deal.ДЄfter a year: Microsoft promises free upgrades to new Office versions, but there have been no new Office versions. In addition, I also use Office on my Mac, which would be a seventh license. Both my wife and I move between three main machines, so we'd wind up needing six licenses to office.

#Office 365 mac review install#

One of the benefits of the plan I have is that each user can install up to five copies of the Office desktop applications. I judge Office 365's support services to be barely tolerable.

#Office 365 mac review full#

After sending back a scolding response, I finally got a useful answer today - a full seven days after my request was initiated. In response, I got a form letter that indicated the support rep hadn't bothered to read my request. I sent in an email request for support on May 6. It's a complete gamble whether I'll get excellent support or terrible support. It's a painful and often frustrating exercise.ДЄfter a year: Support is barely adequate. I dread using Microsoft's support services. Since then, service quality has diminished. When I first tried setting up my accounts with Office 365, I ran into some snags and had pretty high quality support from the Office 365 support team I judge Office 365's basic Exchange hosting services as a win. Spam management is mediocre (I still get messages using foreign character sets), but the amount of junk I get is moderately manageable with rare false positives. I have had no performance or functionality problems with the basic service of getting and sending email. I made the transition to Office 365 because the small hosting provider was starting to evidence reliability problems and I rely on email for just about everything I do.ДЄfter a year: Reliability problems have all but gone away. Prior to moving to Office 365, I was using a private provider and paid $20/month for two Exchange email boxes.

I've been using hosted Exchange services for well over a decade. What I value or need may be different from what you value or need. What I'll measure against is whether or not the $360 we spent for the year was worth it or not.ДЇinally, let me note that everyone's usage pattern is going to be different. So I bought the larger plan because we have a lot of data to store, mostly email going way back to before the turn of the century.ДЇor those of you curious why I chose Office 365 over Google, go ahead and read My big email switch: Why I picked Office 365 over Google AppsДЇor the rest of this article, I'm going to go down the various features and elements of my Office 365 subscription and detail to you my impressions after a year. I've got well over 100TB under one roof, somewhere around fifty devices on our network, and GigE into every wall of the house.

#Office 365 mac review professional#

I bought the Office 365 Midsize Business plan, not so much because my professional service firm is a midsize business as because I use computing resources like a midsize business. With subscriptions for me and my wife, that comes to $30 a month. I signed up like a regular business customer and pay for it like a regular business customer. I didn't get any 'press favors' with this thing. First, and most important, you should know I pay for my own subscription.

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