They have been very responsive to feedback from the community.Īnd so you don’t think I’m making up facts I will be supplying quotes from Microsoft’s pbowden on almost everything. Paul Bowden ( and Erik Schwiebert ( are both Software Engineers at Microsoft inside the APEX team. William Smith ( took it on himself to reach out to the Apple Platform Experience (APEX) Team at Microsoft and helped push them into our community Slack group. Contact info is in the form of Twitter/Slack handle. This post should serve as a overview of the changes to Office 2016 (O2016) for Mac from about November 2015 to Present (January 14th).īefore we can get too far into this post it needs to be noted that none of this would be possible without the hard work and support of the following individuals.

This post will focus on where Office 2016 for Mac currently stands, commonly asked questions, best practices, and solutions for updates. With that being said things have gotten better and quite rapidly. Microsoft Office 2016 for Mac had a rough start for sure. Software not actually becoming licensed.I don’t want to install MAU, is that supported?.Can I disable MAU from auto-checking for updates?.How do I manage updates for Office 2016?.

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