Its codebase has been completely refreshed and optimised for modern Macs, and it’s designed to work beautifully on Retina displays. Office 2016 is all about the cloud – it’s tightly integrated into Microsoft’s OneDrive and SharePoint services.
Office on the Mac has always been considered a bit of an after-thought, but with Apple’s dumbing down of its iWork apps, Microsoft has gone to great lengths to give the first new version of Office in five years a real shot in the arm.