Students can also check /student to see if they qualify for a free or discounted copy. If you do subscribe to Microsoft’s Office 365 subscription service, obtaining the new software should be a snap: just surf to Microsoft’s Office account page and follow the instructions. The only catch? If you’re not already an Office 365 subscriber, you’ll be forced to wait until September. After years of treating the Mac as an also-ran, Microsoft has changed its tune: Microsoft formally released Office 2016 for the Mac on Thursday morning, even before it released it for Windows.
