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With the release of macOS 10.15 Catalina,Office 365 for Mac and Office 2019 for Mac support macOS 10.15, 10.14, and 10.13. Moving forward, as new major versions of macOS are made generally available, Microsoft will drop support for the oldest version and support the newest and previous two versions of macOS. Office 365 system requirements.; 2 minutes to read; In this article. For system requirements for Office 365, the monthly subscription-based service for business, education, and government organizations, see System requirements for Office on the office.com products site. ARCHIVED: For Mac OS X, what are the system requirements for Microsoft Office? This content has been archived, and is no longer maintained by Indiana University. Information here may no longer be accurate, and links may no longer be available or reliable.
All of the requirements in the following sections apply to both the Microsoft Teams desktop app and the Teams Web app.
Hardware requirements for Teams on a Windows PC
| Component | Requirement |
|---|---|
| Computer and processor | Minimum 1.6 GHz (or higher) (32-bit or 64-bit). |
| Memory | 2.0 GB RAM |
| Hard disk | 3.0 GB of available disk space |
| Display | 1024 x 768 screen resolution |
| Graphics hardware | Minimum of 128 MB graphics memory |
| Operating system | Windows Server 2012 R2+, Windows 10, or Windows 8.1 in 32-bit and 64-bit. For the best experience, use the latest version of your operating system. |
| .NET version | Requires .NET 4.5 CLR or later |
| Video | USB 2.0 video camera |
| Devices | Standard laptop camera, microphone, and speakers |
| Video calls and meetings |
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| Teams live events | If you are producing a Teams live events, we recommend using a computer that has a Core i5 Kaby Lake processor, 4.0 GB RAM (or higher) and hardware encoder. See Hardware decoder and encoder driver recommendations for a list of unsupported decoders and encoders. |
Hardware requirements for Teams on a Mac
| Component | Requirement |
|---|---|
| Processor | Minimum Intel processor, Core 2 Duo or higher |
| Memory | 2.0 GB RAM |
| Hard disk | 1.5 GB of available disk space |
| Display | 1280 x 800 or higher resolution |
| Operating system | Mac OS X 10.11 El Capitan or later |
| Video | Compatible webcam |
| Voice | Compatible microphone and speakers, headset with microphone, or equivalent device |
| Video calls and meetings | For better experience with video calls and online meetings, we recommend using a computer that has a 2.0 GHz processor and 4.0 GB RAM (or higher).
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Hardware requirements for Teams on Linux
| Component | Requirement |
|---|---|
| Computer and processor | Minimum 1.6 GHz (or higher) (32-bit or 64-bit). |
| Memory | 2.0 GB RAM |
| Hard disk | 3.0 GB of available disk space |
| Display | 1024 x 768 screen resolution |
| Graphics hardware | Minimum of 128 MB graphics memory |
| Operating system | Linux distribution capable of installing DEB or RPM. |
| Video | USB 2.0 video camera |
| Devices | Standard laptop camera, microphone, and speakers |
| Voice | Compatible microphone and speakers, headset with microphone, or equivalent device |
| Video calls and meetings |
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| Supported Linux distributions | Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, 18.04 LTS, Fedora 30 Workstation, RHEL 8 Workstation, CentOS 8 |
Hardware requirements for Teams on mobile devices
You can use Teams on these mobile platforms:
Android: Compatible with Android phones and tablets.
Support is limited to the last four major versions of Android. When a new major version of Android is released, the new version and the previous three versions are officially supported.
iOS: Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.
Support is limited to the two most recent major versions of iOS. When a new major version of iOS is released, the new version of iOS and the previous version are officially supported.
For the best experience with Teams, use the latest version of iOS and Android.
Hardware requirements for Teams in a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) environment
See Teams for Virtualized Desktop Infrastructure for requirements for running Teams in a virtualized environment.
Related topics
Screenshot of Microsoft Word 2004 on an Intel-based Mac in Mac OS X v10.4 'Tiger' through Rosetta | |
| Developer(s) | Microsoft |
|---|---|
| Initial release | May 11, 2004; 15 years ago |
| Stable release | |
| License | |
| Website | microsoft.com/mac/products |
| System requirements | |
|---|---|
| CPU | PowerPC G3 or higher |
| Operating system | Mac OS X v10.2.8 through v10.6.8 |
| RAM | 256 MB |
| Free hard disk space | 450 MB |
Office 2004 for Mac is a version of Microsoft Office developed for Mac OS X. It is equivalent to Office 2003 for Windows. The software was originally written for PowerPC Macs, so Macs with Intel CPUs must run the program under Mac OS X's Rosetta emulation layer. For this reason, it is not compatible with Mac OS X 10.7 and newer.
Office 2004 was replaced by its successor, Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac, which was developed as a universal binary to run natively on Intel Macs. However, Office 2008 did not include support for Visual Basic for Applications, which made Microsoft extend the support period of Office 2004 from October 13, 2009 to January 10, 2012.[3] Microsoft ultimately shipped support for Visual Basic in Microsoft Office 2011 for Mac, which also dropped PowerPC support altogether. Support for Office 2004 ended January 10, 2012.[2]
Editions[edit]
Microsoft Office for Mac 2004 is available in three editions: Standard, Professional, and Student and Teacher. All three editions include Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Entourage. The Professional Edition adds Virtual PC. The Student and Teacher Edition cannot be upgraded, which means when a later version of Office is released, people who purchased the Student and Teacher edition must buy a new package.
Features[edit]
Word 2004[edit]
Microsoft Word is a word processor which possesses a dominant market share in the word processor market. Its proprietary DOC format is considered a de facto standard, although its successive Windows version (Word 2007) uses a new XML-based format called .DOCX, but has the capability of saving and opening the old .DOC format.
The new Office Open XML format was built into the next version of Office for Mac (Office 2008). However, it is also supported on Office 2004 with the help of a free conversion tool available from Microsoft.[4]
Excel 2004[edit]
Microsoft Excel is a spreadsheet program. Like Microsoft Word, it possesses a dominant market share. It was originally a competitor to the dominant Lotus 1-2-3, but it eventually outsold it and became the de facto standard for spreadsheet programs.
Entourage 2004[edit]
Microsoft Entourage is an email application. Its personal information management features include a calendar, address book, task list, note list, and project manager. With Entourage 2004, Microsoft began offering a Project Center, which allows the user to create and organize projects. Information may come from within Entourage or outside the program.
PowerPoint 2004[edit]
Microsoft Office 2008 System Requirements Mac Os El Capitan
Microsoft PowerPoint is a popular presentation program used to create slideshows composed of text, graphics, movies and other objects, which can be displayed on-screen and navigated through by the presenter or printed out on transparencies or slides. It too possesses a dominant market share. Movies, videos, sounds and music, as well as wordart and autoshapes can be added to slideshows.
Virtual PC[edit]
Included with Office 2004 for Mac Professional Edition, Microsoft Virtual PC is a hypervisor which emulates Microsoft Windowsoperating systems on Mac OS X which are PowerPC-based. Virtual PC does not work on Intel-based Macs and in August 2006, Microsoft announced it would not be ported to Intel-based Macintoshes, effectively discontinuing the product as PowerPC-based Macintoshes are no longer manufactured.
Criticism[edit]
Images inserted into any Office 2004 application by using either cut and paste or drag and drop result in a file that does not display the inserted graphic when viewed on a Windows machine. Instead, the Windows user is told 'QuickTime and a TIFF (LZW) decompressor are needed to see this picture'. Peter Clark of Geek Boy's Blog presented one solution in December 2004.[5] However, this issue persists in Office 2008.
There is no support for editing right to left and bidirectional languages (such as Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, etc.) in Office 2004. This issue has not been fixed in Office 2008 or 2011 either.[6][7]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
Microsoft Office 2008 For Mac
- ^'Download Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac 11.6.6 Update'. Download Center. Microsoft. December 13, 2011. Archived from the original on July 5, 2012.
- ^ ab'Microsoft Support Lifecycle'. Support. Microsoft. Retrieved April 28, 2013.
- ^Tedesco, Mike (October 12, 2009). 'Office 2004 Mainstream Support Has Been Extended'. Mactopia. Microsoft. Archived from the original on October 17, 2009. Retrieved October 12, 2009.
- ^'MS11-072: Description of the Open XML File Format Converter for Mac 1.2.1: September 13, 2011'. Support. Microsoft. September 13, 2011.
- ^Clark, Peter (December 6, 2004). 'QuickTime and a TIFF (LZW) decompressor are needed to see this picture'. Geek Boy's Blog. Archived from the original on December 6, 2004. Retrieved October 12, 2009.
- ^Heard, Chris (September 27, 2007). 'It's official: no RTL support in Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac'. Higgaion. Archived from the original on October 11, 2007. Retrieved October 12, 2009.
- ^Morgenstern, David (August 8, 2010). 'Microsoft boosts languages, proofing tools in Office 2011 for Mac, Unicode right-to-left support missing'. ZDNet. CBS Interactive. Retrieved April 27, 2013.