His email address is more by Gregg Keizer on. Follow Gregg on Twitter at on Google+ or subscribe to Gregg's RSS feed. Gregg Keizer covers Microsoft, security issues, Apple, Web browsers and general technology breaking news for Computerworld. This article, Microsoft to launch next Office for Mac in second half of 2014, was originally published at. 'The team is hard at work on the next version of Office for Mac,' the spokeswoman said in an emailed reply to questions. Microsoft added 'native support for both Apple silicon and Intel. Microsoft neither confirmed nor denied Hübschen's comments on Office for Mac release timing. Microsoft 365 applications can now run on Mac machines using Apples M1 system-on-chip technology, Microsoft announced on Tuesday. The MacBU blog shutdown was part of a January refresh of all Microsoft's blogs that focused on Office topics, a company spokeswoman said. Future posts will be published on the more inclusive Office Blogs website, where Office on Windows and Office 365 dominate.

'As of today, no new posts will appear,' the blog stated Monday. Microsoft also shuttered the Mac Office-specific blog it maintained for years at the site where it touts and sells the productivity suite. Customers may have little more than a year to migrate to the newest edition before Microsoft stops patching Office for Mac 2011. If Microsoft waits until later this year to ship Office for Mac 2015, it will be cutting it close: The Redmond, Wash., company supports Mac editions of Office for just five years, half the support lifecycle of the Windows' suite, and Office for Mac 2011's retirement date is set for Jan. It's likely that the next Office for Apple's OS X will be titled 'Office for Mac 2015,' as Microsoft typically slaps the next year's date on an Office edition that launches in the second half of a calendar year.

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