[kyllo]

In a limited way. Word, Excel, Outlook, Powerpoint, and Communicator (i/o Lync) are available for Mac, but they are not even close to the Windows versions in terms of feature parity. VBA support has been on-and-off. Access, Infopath, and Publisher are not available at all. They're written in Cocoa and on a different release cycle. There is no Office for Mac 2013, current version is 2011.

[jbrooksuk]

With One Note for Mac and now this, I'm actually excited for the next release of Office for Mac, it's looking like it's going to be really good!

I'm sick of Outlook on OSX (it's the only Office app I use), I can add rules, but I can't add notifications so I miss all of my emails. Now I've turned it off I have to manually order things.

On top of that I'm stuck with Calibri as the default font. The default can't be changed.

[ghshephard]

For 95%+ of their user base, Word, Powerpoint and Excel have feature parity on the Mac/Windows. Outlook and Lync are significantly superior on the Windows Platform.

Excel had a pretty nasty regression on the Macintosh in Office 2004/2008 (to the point at which I no longer used it on the Mac in 2008, it was pretty horrid) - but they returned it to (mostly) feature parity as of Office 2011.

Sharepoint, on the other hand, is complete crap on a Macintosh. It's almost like it's been designed to be bad.

[threeseed]

For 95% of their user base Outlook for Mac is also at feature parity.

I've been using it in enterprise for years and never found a missing feature.

[seanmcdirmid]

Mac Office has often surpassed Win Office in many ways; in usability for example. It is at least a different product, not better or worse.

[rahimnathwani]

"It is at least a different product, not better or worse."

The very fact that it's different makes it worse for me. I can use Excel 2010 for Windows without thinking about the tool. Small differences like startup behaviour, position of things on the ribbon, and keyboard shortcut force me to think about how to use Excel for Mac, rather than focusing on the task at hand.

Some, but not all, of this is down to differences in the platform and platform-specific design conventions.

[seanmcdirmid]

You should really look into a version of Word called 6.0 for Windows and Mac. Thankfully, Excel 6.0 was skipped for the Mac.

[selectodude]

OneNote for Mac just came out, and it's really good. So they're obviously doing something in the MacBU.