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Wednesday, September 19, 2012, 03:32 pm
Microsoft adds Retina display support to Office for Mac 2011
Microsoft on Wednesday updated its Office for Mac 2011 productivity suite to add Retina display support for Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook.The update makes text more crisp and all key ares of the interface sharper than ever, Microsoft said in a post to its official Office for Mac blog. Users who have Microsoft AutoUpdate set to check for updates automatically will be notified that Microsoft Office 2011 for Mac version 14.2.4 is now available.
Microsoft promised on Wednesday that its team is "going back to work on even more great features" for Office for Mac. The product team welcomes comments and suggestions on its official blog. Office for Mac 2011 first launched in October of 2011.
Apple currently offers one Mac in its lineup with a high-resolution Retina display: a 15-inch MacBook Pro. The company is expected to launch a 13-inch MacBook Pro with Retina display this fall to expand the Retina lineup to two Macs.
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Agree with cpsro ... I don't see the Retina support taking effect after installing the update.
I can't believe MS Office has beaten Filemaker Pro to Retina. Seriously Filemaker, you need to get your Sh*t together and get Filemaker retinized
You should really just be calling Apple out on that.
Keeps telling me that I'm current at 14.2.3
For me this is almost bigger news, than 10.8.2. Although I have been using the workaround of adding the string, which at least made the text clean.
Agree with cpsro ... I don't see the Retina support taking effect after installing the update.
Restarting OSX cold enabled it for me.
Take the same document and put it in Word and Pages at 200% side by side. If Word has been updated for retina displays, I'm a monkey's uncle.
I can't believe MS Office has beaten Filemaker Pro to Retina. Seriously Filemaker, you need to get your Sh*t together and get Filemaker retinized
I wish Apple would reabsorb File Maker Inc. and improve the products, fully integrate them and then fix the pricing.
Take the same document and put it in Word and Pages at 200% side by side. If Word has been updated for retina displays, I'm a monkey's uncle.
Come on, it's Microsofts 'version' of retina display. This is the same company that is making Windows 8 look like an 8 bit 1980's interface what do you expect? /wink
OMG is that why it's called Windows 8?
Retina, shmetina for now - the bigger news is that Office for Mac users are ALSO gonna be pushed into the annual rental fee model ("the Microsoft Tax") of use that Win users are learning is their future. A limited single-user "traditional" version (installable on a single machine... ...ONCE....) will still be available, but where they're pushing us hard is into....
$99.99 a year, dear ones...
So get ready to bend over and pony up - flexibly but inexorably....
(Flexibly: your "annual" license covers multi Win and Mac 'puters, extra program access - to programs most of us don't use like, well, Access - free storage on Sky Drive - which I've found a bitch to use - and free Skype minutes - which I for one don't need)
(Inexorably: if they pull this off with no real user blowback, this will likely be your last chance to buy a stand alone version of Office - a "suite" I buy solely to be able to share Word documents with the DOC and DOCX world, i.e., I use Keynote because I only have to present, not share files and my spreadsheet needs are limited.)
Paul Thurrott (surprisingly or unsurprisingly) finds this development to be a screaming bargain: http://www.winsupersite.com/article/office-2013-beta2/office-2013-pricing-packaging-144267
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As far as I can tell, retina support isn't implemented to a significant degree. In particular, text still has jaggies. Of lesser importance, gallery images are still lo-res/blurry.