You can download Microsoft Office applications from the Mac App Store

Microsoft Office went to the Mac App Store. The announcement from last year's WWDC conference was fulfilled.

Office has long been available on macOS computers. We could not download the Microsoft office suite from the Mac App Store. At the annual WWDC conference in 2018 . there was a promise that the Office would be available in the software repository for Apple hardware. This happened during the MacOS Mojave presentation and the refreshed Mac App Store. It was then informed that in addition to Microsoft's software, the application store will also include CC package from Adobe.

The fact that Office is moving to the Mac App Store has previously confirmed the document in Microsoft's help center . We can learn from it that you need an Office 365 subscription to use the Word, Excel and PowerPoint software downloaded from the Apple store.

Perpetual licenses for such software as Office 2019 Home & Business or Office 2019 Home & Student will not allow the use of applications downloaded from the Apple store. For customers who have an Office with such a license and download the application from the Mac App Store, a yellow bar will appear with information on limited access to the features - Microsoft informs.

Microsoft Word and Excel went to Macintosh in 1985. Two years later, Apple made his PowerPoint debut. At present, we can purchase a company office package from Redmond in a boxed version with a perpetual license or use it in the form of a subscription as part of the Office 365 service.

Microsoft Office in the Mac App Store will not change much on the market.

The reason is simple - owners of Mac computers have long been able to use Microsoft's software, and the ability to download it from the official Apple store is a big, but only simplification and another sales channel. We can also buy Office in Apple's online store in boxed and subscription versions.

I myself use two applications that are part of the Office - Word and Excel. If it were not for professional needs, I could trust Apple's iWork package consisting of the Pages text editor, the Numbers spreadsheet and the Keynote presentation program.

In business applications, the applications of the Cupertino company can, however, cause problems, especially when we run files with extensions typical of Office on them. From the point of view of my work, a perfect example of IWork's weaknesses is even the problem with displaying comments introduced to the text in Word. Office has become an indispensable tool for me.

You can download Microsoft Office applications from the Mac App Store