Microsoft Office on Apple’s Mac App Store

Well its great news for iphone and Mac users, now the Microsoft Office applications is available for download in Apple’s Mac App Store for the first time. Previously, Mac users had to download the applications from Microsoft’s website. Office for Mac now shares a code base with Windows, gets real-time collaboration.

Microsoft Office on Apple

Microsoft is making its Office suite available on Apple’s Mac App Store today. The software king originally promised to bring Office apps to the Mac App Store by the end of 2018. Now, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneNote, and OneDrive are all included as part of the Microsoft Office 365 app bundles. And user will need an Office 365 subscription to use Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook.

The apps are the same versions that have been previously available to Mac owners through Microsoft’s own website, but they’re now neatly packaged in the Mac App Store. The biggest advantage of this is that the Office apps will be automatically updated through the App Store. So, the users will not require updating it manually. Instead of Microsoft’s separate AutoUpdate (MAU) tool that’s typically used to update Office for Mac.

Apple also welcomed Microsoft’s addition to the Mac App Store today. “We are excited to welcome Microsoft Office 365 to the all new Mac App Store in macOS Mojave,” says Phil Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of worldwide marketing. “Apple and Microsoft have worked together to bring great Office productivity to Mac users from the very beginning. Now, with Office 365 on the Mac App Store, it’s easier than ever to get the latest and best version of Office 365 for Mac, iPad and iPhone.”