It's not perfectly fine. I'm running a top of the line 2015 MacBook pro 13 inch. I use the office products for heavy work use. Been using office 2016 for a few weeks now and there are some awful bugs still to work out. The main one for me is everything is SLOW. I have a spreadsheet with around 1000+ tabs.

Office 2011 users who want to try Office 2016 but are hesitant to rely on it needn’t worry because the two versions of the software can run side by side on the same computer. Office 2016 works with Microsoft’s cloud storage options, letting you access your files on OneDrive, OneDrive for Business, and SharePoint. View the Microsoft Support Lifecycle information for Outlook 2016 for Mac For more information on the different versions of Office for Mac, see the Deployment guide for Office for Mac. Outlook for Mac 2011.

Try searching the whole spreadsheet? You can literally watch it scroll through each tab. It's the most infuriating thing ever. Office 2011 flew through 300 tabs per second. Outlook is equally annoying.

Outlook 2011 was immediately responsive. In 2016, I can type a name, press enter, and it won't bring up the recent addresses fast enough so it says it's an unknown address.

Happens at least a few times a day. If you're using it for anything more than light work. Don't update. I'd like anyone to name one thing it does better than office 2011? I haven't noticed anything yet. Office 2016 is much better than Office 2011.

It seems everyone has short memories of how terrible Office 2011 actually was. Also Office tends to have compatibility issues from time to time with OSX, so staying on the latest version ensures these are fixed relatively quickly. I don't think Office 2011 is updated anymore at all. The best way to purchase is with an Office 365 subscription. Purchasing this way also allows you to install onto multiple devices (including all versions, i.e. IPad, iPhone, Windows, etc). Which is a nice bonus.

Example of a platform. I use Office 2011 for about 8-12 hours daily and frankly I'm afraid to upgrade because for the first time, MS is warning of issues with having more than one version of Office on your Mac. It used to be you could have as many versions as you wanted installed - on my old Snow Leopard system I had 2004, 2009 (or was it 2008? Can't remember) and 2011.

To the average person this would probably seem like a waste of space but I had some good reasons for doing this. First - I am a professional proofreader and I deal with documents all day. I work on a Mac but most of my clients are on Windows-based systems and they also are working in different languages as well, so having multiple versions installed gave me more options in terms of compatibility. Every once in a while, a file that would crash Office 2011 would be fine in 2004 or 2008 - so I needed that safety net. (I also had Open Office and Office for Windows on a Virtual Machine.) Also, 2011 was basically broken when it was released - it's dependable now but it used to crash multiple times daily.