Microsoft s main app collection of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook in Microsoft 365 have all been updated to run natively on Apple Silicon M1 Macs, with more related apps coming.
Microsoft has announced that most of its Microsoft 365 apps, previously known as Office 365, have now been updated and are universal apps. Alongside support for Intel Macs, Microsoft s most popular apps will also run on the new Apple Silicon M1. We are excited to announce that starting today we are releasing new versions of many of our Microsoft 365 for Mac apps that run natively on Macs with M1, said Bill Doll, Microsoft Senior Product Marketing Manager for Microsoft 365, said in a blog post.
Microsoft Office is now updated for M1 Macs
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If you’ve been using Microsoft Office on an M1 Mac, it’s about to get better Microsoft is announcing an update today that brings native support for Apple’s new custom chip architecture to the Windows productivity suite. The apps getting the updates are Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, and OneNote. Notably absent, however, is Teams.
The updates are making the apps universal ones meaning these versions will run on both Intel and Apple Silicon Macs, so any upcoming updates or features will be coming at the same time for both platforms.
Chris Davies - Dec 15, 2020, 12:16pm CST
Microsoft 365 for Mac has been updated with native support for Apple Silicon, with the core Office apps now running at their best on chipsets like the M1 in the newest MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, and Mac mini. The update, released today, also brings a redesign to Microsoft 365, bringing it in line with the rest of macOS Big Sur.
Office 365 has been running on Apple Silicon Macs already, of course, though that’s been through emulation. Apple’s Rosetta 2 allows third-party software not yet updated with support for its Arm-based chipsets to still run on Big Sur Macs, though not necessarily tap into their maximum performance – or, indeed, allow for the longest possible battery life.
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