Office 2011 14.4.5 update is out

[Nix4Life]

Hi guys;
new update. they may have fixed packaging as I was able to upload it as is to munki, and it installed at the loginwindow

[BrentSlater]

Any fix to constant Outlook Identity Database corruption?

[donmontalvo]

Any fix for the improper plain text wrapping in Outlook?

[emily]

Pretty sure it's just a security update for Outlook and some Yosemite compatibility patching. I haven't really noticed anything different. I wish they'd just, you know, release a relevant Office version. At least one that can talk to an Exchange 2013 server correctly…sigh…

[ImAMacGuy]

I thought I read somewhere that Office 2011 goes EOL next year. If true, then there should be another half baked Office Suite due out to replace it.

That being said, I haven't heard much from M$

[mm2270]

Same here. Heard hot and heavy rumors of a new release for a while, but its been strangely quiet from them for months now. I will need to nudge our MS rep and see whats up with that.

[nigelg]

We are well overdue a release - 2010 Windows, 2011 Mac, 2013 Windows, 2014 Mac? 2015?

[donmontalvo]

I thought Microsoft was only going to sell us Microsoft Office 365?

http://www.cnet.com/news/ms-office-mac/

[emily]

But Office 365 just lets you download Mac 2011… so really it's the same thing in a different package (with a different price sticker). If they were able to make an iPad version of Office apps you'd think they could get something comparable working on OS X.

[mm2270]

Yeah really. Office 365 is the same pig, different clothes... or something like that. I seriously heard directly from our MS rep, not some wacko rumor site even, that they were working on a new version to be released this year. We're not far from the end of the year now, so clock is a ticking if they are going to do it.

[emily]

I heard something very similar, and that it was a "new version" not a "new version for Mac OS X"…  My suspicion is that "new version" was those iOS iPad apps that came out in the spring. I wouldn't be surprised if we don't see a new Mac OS X version of Office until Q1-Q2 of 2015. Which is stupid.