Hi - I posted a while back re a lot of excel files I had on my PC and how to keep them working on my mac - folks mentioned MS Office for Mac as a solution. Turns out I am able to get MS Office 2016 for $10 thru my company.
Thinking more about the route I took to get here - the whole reason I switched to Apple was my frustration/borderline hatred for MS windows - rebuilding the laptops and tower we have every so often because of all the extra crap that ends up running on it - not to mention all the non-stop security updates (think there were over 1,000 updates in one of the last rebuilds I did of Win 7). Windows is a cesspool of code imho.
So now faced with a solution of running MS Office on my MBP, which has been running great without any problems since I got it last christmas - am I being paranoid about putting MS Office 2016 on it? I know MS can be evil - they were proven to put code in their OS that favored MS Explorer over Netscape.. ie. make NS not work so well.... and I'm concerned they could do the same here - screw up my Mac since its' not a Windows platform
Has anyone running MS Office on MAC had any of the old issues I've been free of for the past 12 months? ie. Constant security updates to the app due to breaches found? Malicious code screwing up their machine? Does your Mac run just as well now as it did before you installed MS Office?
It's the easiest route for me in terms of keeping all my calculation/formula heavy spreadsheets... I'm just a bit paranoid about the side effects.. are my fears warranted?
Craftydad
Thinking more about the route I took to get here - the whole reason I switched to Apple was my frustration/borderline hatred for MS windows - rebuilding the laptops and tower we have every so often because of all the extra crap that ends up running on it - not to mention all the non-stop security updates (think there were over 1,000 updates in one of the last rebuilds I did of Win 7). Windows is a cesspool of code imho.
So now faced with a solution of running MS Office on my MBP, which has been running great without any problems since I got it last christmas - am I being paranoid about putting MS Office 2016 on it? I know MS can be evil - they were proven to put code in their OS that favored MS Explorer over Netscape.. ie. make NS not work so well.... and I'm concerned they could do the same here - screw up my Mac since its' not a Windows platform
Has anyone running MS Office on MAC had any of the old issues I've been free of for the past 12 months? ie. Constant security updates to the app due to breaches found? Malicious code screwing up their machine? Does your Mac run just as well now as it did before you installed MS Office?
It's the easiest route for me in terms of keeping all my calculation/formula heavy spreadsheets... I'm just a bit paranoid about the side effects.. are my fears warranted?
Craftydad