The new Microsoft Office for Mac will be available by year-end

good news for users of MS Office for Mac and Apple fans: the team of the Mac Business Unit, Microsoft announced that Office for Mac will be released in 2011 by the end of this year.

The new software package Office for Mac will resemble the Office 2010 for Windows, but in fact, This original program, not ported or adapted and specially designed for Mac OS X.

Eric Wilfrid (Eric Wilfred), general manager of the Mac Business Unit, said that the Office for Mac 2011 will receive a number of interesting features. The program is planned to implement the Outlook e-mail client (instead of Entourage) and support files into .PST format. As Word documents, Excel and PowerPoint will be able to handle multiple users simultaneously, and stored These documents must be on Microsoft SharePoint platform (Enterprise) and Windows Live SkyDrive (for users).

According to Wilfrid, the command Mac Business Unit ensures support for Office for Mac 2011, Office Web Apps software package (Google Docs equivalent). In addition, the famous Ribbon Ribbon to appear in all versions of Office for the Mac. But support for the program One Note in the new version of Office will not be for the Mac.

Wilfrid also said that, perhaps, in the long term staff Mac Business Unit will work and over the version of Office for the iPad, and Microsoft senior product manager, Mike Tedesco (Mike Tedesco) confirmed his words. At the time of the release plate for him will only be available application package iWork such as Pages, Numbers and Keynote. They will be available in the AppStore for $ 10 each.