Microsoft said that customers could run the new Outlook alongside the existing Outlook bundled as part of Office for Mac 2011, the four-year-old suite that will drop off the firm's support list in January 2016. 'The new Outlook for Mac is available to Office 365 commercial customers and Office 365 Home, Office 365 Personal and Office 365 University subscribers,' wrote the Office team in a blog post announcing Outlook's availability. Those subscriptions cost $80 for a four-year deal for college students, between $70 and $100 annually for consumers, and between $99 and $264 per user per year for businesses. Only customers with an active Office 365 subscription can download the refreshed Outlook for OS X. But the company took a different tack today because of its emphasis on the rent-not-buy subscription model that it's aggressively pushed since January 2013.
Typically Microsoft rolls out a new edition of Office as a complete package, with all-new - or mostly-new - applications rather than release bits piecemeal. 'This looks like it will be a journey, an evolution over the next year or so for Office on the Mac.'
company's approach to software development. 'Microsoft likes to say 'It's a journey,'' said Miller of the Redmond, Wash.
