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How Microsoft will deal with a free iWork is unknown. In households - but not businesses - with multiple Macs, that effectively means all the machines can be equipped with iWork for free.
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Last fall, Apple set free its rival suite, iWork, giving away the three OS X applications of Pages, Numbers and Keynote to every new Mac buyer.
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Still, Microsoft looks out over a different landscape than 40 months ago when it launched Office for Mac 2011. To dump the Mac suite, even though its sales are Lilliputian in comparison to that for Windows, would be an embarrassment at least, and seen as a betrayal by those who committed to subscriptions rather than buy traditional "perpetual" licenses. There's no chance that Microsoft will pull Office for the Mac from its portfolio: The company has touted Office 365, the rent-not-own subscription plans for both consumers and businesses, as providing up to five licenses for either Windows or OS X editions of the suites' desktop applications. News of the next Office for Mac? Nothing. The last cycle - for Office for Mac 2011 - the company was comparatively loquacious, announcing its intentions to craft the suite about 14 months before shipping the software, and it gave semi-regular updates on its MacBU blog. What's odd is Microsoft's silence about the next Office for the Mac. The Windows and OS X Office development teams don't work in tandem, but in sequence, with Windows taking the lead and OS X following. The development team responsible for Office on the Mac, dubbed Macintosh Business Unit (MacBU), requires the lag time to incorporate changes that other engineering groups made to the Windows predecessor. But even the longer lag time of the latter has now been exceeded: Office 2013 for Windows launched Jan.
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Office for Mac 2008, however, came 351 days, or nearly a year, after the debut of its Windows sibling, Office 2007. Office for Mac 2011, for instance, followed Office 2010 on Windows by 134 days, or just over four months. Historically, Microsoft has hewn to a three-year development cycle for both Office on the Mac and the far-more-popular Office suite for Windows, with a new version of the former following the newest of the latter by several months at a minimum. But as of Thursday, it had been 1,213 days since the launch of Office for Mac 2011. The average spread between Office for Mac editions - going back as far as Office v. Prior to that, Microsoft issued upgrades in January 2008 (Office for Mac 2008), May 2004 (Office for Mac 2004) and November 2001 (Office v. The last time Microsoft launched a new Office for OS X was October 2010, when it rolled out Office for Mac 2011.