Microsoft Office is a collection of applications, each of them designed to perform a certain task and created to enable you to get started working on any type of project, knowing that you've got all the basic tools you'll need and a lot more, at hand and ready to go.

When having to get an office suite for your new Mac or replacing your old one and despite the fact that Apple's iWork suite has gotten better each year, Microsoft Office still is most probably the golden standard.ĭespite the fact that there are also many other free and open source alternative out there that could help you create text documents, presentations, spreadsheets databases and all kinds of drawings ( OpenOffice, LibreOffice, and Apple's Pages, Numbers, and Keynote, to name just the most important ones that come to mind), Microsoft's Office suite is still one of the leading solutions of this type on the Mac platform, due to its long tradition of offering professional grade tools for any task you might have to deal within a productivity environment.