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.

As an enterprise customer, I can get Office for 10 (which is about all its worth to me).

Just anecdotally and from supporting 100s of Mac users (and 1000s of Windows users), Pages, Numbers, Keynote are so fantastic but never got enough traction to threaten MS Office share.

Apple has done a great job convincing people that Windows has so many drawbacks and that OS X would be a safe and even better replacement.

Office 2011 was a (deliberately, I believe) horrid port of Office for OS X.

There was so much room for converting people to another solution.

Mac Mail could have swooped in and supported many (most) of the features of Outlook 2011.

Im guessing that MS Offices popularity on OS X will only improve with this release.

They have a decent entrenched user base already and this new version finally brings feature and design parity to OS X.

Anyway, Im giving up hope that the Apple Productivity apps will give MS Office any competition.

Microsoft Office 365 For Mac 2016