Microsoft Office 2016 for Mac is now available to Office 365 commercial customers

Office 2016 for Mac, which inlcudes Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote is available for Office 365 consumer and commercial customers in 139 countries and 16 languages starting today! Featuring the familiar ribbon interface and powerful task panes, Office 2016 for Mac users will appreciate the integration of capabilities like Full Screen view and Multi-TouchTM gestures. Now with full Retina display support, Office documents look sharper and more vibrant than ever.

Based on feedback from the Mac Office community, Office 2016 for Mac delivers an improved cloud connected experience. Office 2016 for Mac has a familiar look and feel and works with Office for Windows, iOS, Android and Office Online.

Offered as a beta during a preview program Office 2016 received the assistance of Mac users who provided feedback which led to many of the improvements on the applications. Microsoft explaine that, "Mac preview participants provided us with over 100,000 pieces of feedback. Based on this feedback, we released seven updates in four months with significant improvements in performance and stability. We also added features like improved Mail Merge in Word, Propose New Time in Outlook and support for External Data Connections in Excel."

"And the best news is that Office for Mac will continue to see ongoing improvements over time. We plan to release updates and new features for Office 365 customers at least once per quarter."

At no additional cost, Office 365 customers can receive the new Office 2016 for Mac with the benefit of full-featured Office on multiple devices, 1 TB of cloud (OneDrive) storage, and future features and enhancements.

Office 2016 for Mac will become available as a one-time purchase option this September.