Microsoft to Update Office 2011 for OS X Lion

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Posted July 28, 2011 at 5:25pm by Shalom Levytam

Microsoft has announced that it will be updating Office 2011 to support versioning, auto save, and full-screen for Mac OS X Lion; however, it may be a few months before those updates are ready.

First, today we released an update to Communicator for Mac that fixes the "crash issue" on Lion. It will come through Microsoft AutoUpdate in the next day or so. Thanks for your patience on this.

Second, Office for Mac 2004 will not (ever) work on Lion, as we stated in our original blog. The reason for this is because Office 2004 was a PowerPC-based product and Lion no longer includes Rosetta. Now would be a great time to upgrade to Office for Mac 2011 if you're upgrading to Lion!

Finally, the most common question – yes, we are working hard with Apple to enable versioning, auto save, and full-screen for Office for Mac 2011. I know your next question will be "when?", and unfortunately I can't answer that – but it's likely measured in months not days – just to set expectations.

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Nobo1 - July 30, 2011 at 7:51am

How about they update LION( ignore 10.7.2) as it's seriously sluggish on my icore MBP 2011 edition....which I may add is 2 weeks old...

undertaker - July 28, 2011 at 7:09pm

what the heck, all the people in this thing are like 25 years old. if they expect us to believe that a bunch of newbie 25 year olds are the brainchilds of this office 2011 for mac, they need to get out more into the sunlight and the real world. if i were a microsoft office/mac developer (who's probably 40+), i'd be pissed that these babies are taking credit for all my work!

nir-hus - July 28, 2011 at 6:09pm

Why use office 2011? I switched to Pages, Numbers, and Keynote. I feel that it is much more intuitive, simpler to use and cheaper. Nir Hus, www.nirhus.com

Junaid - July 28, 2011 at 5:29pm

Obviously it will take months we are talking about microsoft, may be a year....