TheMac version of the popular productivity software will make its debut inthree flavors: Office for Mac Home and Student 2011, Office for MacHome and Business 2011 and Office for Mac Academic 2011.
Home andStudent 2011, which includes Word, PowerPoint, Excel and Messenger, willretail for $119 for an individual install and $149 for a Family Pack(three installs). Office for Mac Home and Business 2011 will retail for ahigher price: $199 for one install and $279 for two installs. However,it comes with a significant addition: Outlook for Mac, which replacesthe less capable Entourage e-mail client. The Academic edition ofOffice, which includes all of the features of the Home and Businessversion, will cost $99, but is only available for students, faculty andstaff of higher education institutions. Office for Mac 2011 comes in 13languages, including two new ones: Polish and Russian. This is on top ofthe English, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese,Norwegian, Spanish and Swedish versions, most of which will be releasedby the end of the year.