Microsoft on Tuesday its new Office 2013 and Office 365 productivity software suites. Lost in the announcement, however, was what (if anything) those suites would mean to Mac users. Macworld spoke to Microsoft representatives to get some clarification. Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 For starters, Office 2013 doesn’t mean anything to the Mac: it’s for Windows computers only. Office 365, on the other hand, does impact Mac users, but it doesn’t introduce any new features; rather, it’s essentially a new licensing model for Office for Mac. A subscription to Office 365 ($10 per month, or $100 per year) gives you the right to download Office software to up to five computers.

For Mac users, what you'll download is Office for Mac 2011—it's pretty much the same version of the suite that we've been using for a couple of years now, but it's been updated to include activation for Office 365 Home Premium. Your subscription must be renewed monthly or annually in order to continue to use the software. (A that runs on two computers is available for $80.) If you currently own Office for Mac 2011, you must uninstall that software when you sign up for Office 365. You will then download and install Office for Mac 2011 through your Office 365 account—again, on up to five Macs.

Microsoft offers a number of Office 365 subscriptions and it is the Small Business Premium (£10.10), Midsize Business (£9.80) and Enterprise plans (£15.00) per month/user respectively that. Office 365 Small Business, for up to 25 users, does not include the Office 2013 desktop apps (though you would be forgiven for assuming otherwise). However, if you already have licenses for Office.

Mac users who sign up for Office 365 will also get 20GB of SkyDrive storage (up from the 5GB that comes with a free account) and 60 minutes per month of Skype calls. One of the marquee new features of Office 365 is, a service that allows a PC without Word, Excel, or PowerPoint installed to run those programs via Internet streaming.

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But Office on Demand is a Windows-only feature; it remains to be seen whether it will be available to Mac users when the next version of Office for Mac is released. Word Web app Mac users do have an alternative to Office on Demand:, which have been available since 2010. Accessible through a account, those apps let you create and edit Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, and PowerPoint presentations using Web-based versions of those apps, then save those documents to your SkyDrive or Mac. However, those Web apps aren’t as full-featured as the desktop versions; SkyDrive does provide the option to open a document directly in the desktop version of each program (provided that app is on your Mac). Unrelated to the Office 365/Office 2013 announcement, Microsoft released an on Tuesday.

The update provides several fixes to Outlook and PowerPoint. Editor's note: Updated on 1/29/13 at 7pm PT to clarify what the downloaded version of Office for Mac 2011 offers.

Featured stories • • • • Before I get started, let's set the stage. First, and most important, you should know I pay for my own subscription. I didn't get any 'press favors' with this thing. I signed up like a regular business customer and pay for it like a regular business customer. With subscriptions for me and my wife, that comes to $30 a month.

I bought the Office 365 Midsize Business plan, not so much because my professional service firm is a midsize business as because I use computing resources like a midsize business. I've got well over 100TB under one roof, somewhere around fifty devices on our network, and GigE into every wall of the house. So I bought the larger plan because we have a lot of data to store, mostly email going way back to before the turn of the century. For those of you curious why I chose Office 365 over Google, go ahead and read. It tells the full story.

For the rest of this article, I'm going to go down the various features and elements of my Office 365 subscription and detail to you my impressions after a year. What I'll measure against is whether or not the $360 we spent for the year was worth it or not. I made the transition to Office 365 because the small hosting provider was starting to evidence reliability problems and I rely on email for just about everything I do. After a year: Reliability problems have all but gone away. I have had no performance or functionality problems with the basic service of getting and sending email.

Spam management is mediocre (I still get messages using foreign character sets), but the amount of junk I get is moderately manageable with rare false positives. I judge Office 365's basic Exchange hosting services as a win. Support quality When I first tried setting up my accounts with Office 365,. Since then, service quality has diminished.