Microsoft: Office for Mac Will Get a Refresh Soon

Microsoft Office has evolved quite a bit since the release of the new subscription-based Office 365 in early 2013, but the Mac version has remained stubbornly stuck in 2011, the year of its last major update. But Mac users shouldn't have to wait much longer for a refresh.

Office for Mac will be updated this year, a Microsoft representative told German publication Computerwoche (Computerweek in English). Thorsten Hübschen, who oversees Microsoft's office in Germany, revealed the company had originally intended to release Office:mac 2013, but those plans were scrapped after the company's Mac business unit was phased out. Microsoft stopped updating the Office for Mac blog on Monday. Read more...