For installation of applications on your CERN Mac, please check: Mac Self-Service.
CERN Users are invited to edit their office documents using on-line editors integrated into CERNBox.
CERN users who have a CERN mailbox [1] and a specific affiliation [2] type may obtain Microsoft Office 365 ProPlus licence, which enables them to download Office products for their Windows PC or Mac and to enable full functionality of Microsoft Office apps on their smart devices.
In order to get the Office 365 ProPlus licence, please submit a request using this ServieNow request form. Once the licence has been granted to your CERN account, you will be able to
- use the Self-Service to enable converting an existing MS Office 2016 installation to Office 365
- use the Self-Service to install Office 365 (if neither Office 2016 nor Office 2019 are installed on your Mac; requires macOS 10.13.6 or newer)
- logon at https://portal.office.com and download the applications for Windows PC or Mac from there
- use this account to log on in the Office apps on your smart devices.
Office 2016 for PC Office 2016 for Mac Office 2013 for PC Install Office 2016 on a PC Remember a one-time purchase version of Office is licensed for one install only. Depending on your browser, select Run (in Edge or Internet Explorer), Setup (in Chrome), or Save File (in Firefox). For example, if you're licensed for Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2019 through Volume Licensing, you can use Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2016 instead. But you may not downgrade to Microsoft Office Standard Edition 2016 because it is a different product and not considered a prior version of Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2019. Microsoft Office 2016 (codenamed Office 16) is a version of the Microsoft Office productivity suite, succeeding both Office 2013 and Office for Mac 2011 and preceding Office 2019 for both platforms. It was released on macOS on July 9, 2015, and on Microsoft Windows on September 22, 2015, for Office 365 subscribers. Mainstream support ended on October 13, 2020, and most editions have extended.
Please note the granted licence might be revoked in the future.
The Office 365 ProPlus licence enables to you to install Office 365 ProPlus on up to 5 Windows PCs or Macs and to use it on 5 tablets (Windows, iPad and Android) and 5 smartphones. This licence is renewable every 12 months.
Office 365 ProPlus on Mac includes: Ecrm mako driver for mac.
- Word
- Excel
- PowerPoint
- Outlook
Microsoft Office is available for installation from the CERN Mac Self-Service for users that are registered for Office 365. You may also use this licence to run Microsoft Office on your home Macs, on your tablets or smartphones.
Office 2016 Mac Enter License Key
Please note that OneDrive for Business in Microsoft cloud is currently not available to CERN users. Instead, we recommend using CERNBox.
Activation of Office 365
When you start one of the Office 365 products you will be asked to activate your license, as shown on the following screenshot. Click on the 'Activate' button to start the process.
A new window will pop up, click on 'Sign in':
On the next window enter your CERN email address:
You might get another window on which you should select 'Work or school account':
Once that is done you will get a window saying 'You're All Set'.
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[1] Having a CERN mailbox and a '@cern.ch' e-mail address is necessary to log on to Office 365. Users who don't have it can enable it using the CERN Account Portal (including an optional forward to an external non-CERN e-mail address).
[2] The following affiliations are not eligible for Office 365 ProPlus licence: ENTC, EXMP, EXTN, RETR. In addition, having a CERN mailbox is a technical pre-requisite for getting access to the Office 365 ProPlus licence. You may check your afflication type on the CERN Account Portal.
It’s here! Office 2016! The latest version of a classic Microsoft product. In the past, the release of a new version of Office would have been accompanied with trumpets! Fireworks! Parades!
But from the look of things online, it would seem that Office 2016 is no big deal. From the Office business website, you would get the impression that Office 2016 is just a feature within Office 365:
Instead of Office 2016 being displayed prominently on their website, you have to hunt down information about traditional, perpetual licenses of Office 2016. And do you want to see a feature set of the Office 2016 suites? Good luck! You’ll soon find yourself lost in a maze of hyperlinks, desperately searching for information on Office 2016 but only finding page after page devoted to Office 365. For example, there are no perpetual licenses listed in the “Office for business” category on the supposedly comprehensive products page. Instead, you get the impression that if you’re a business owner then Office 365 is your only option:
What’s going on here?
My take on the situation is that Microsoft is trying to encourage as many people as possible to break with tradition and sign up for Office 365. Consequently, they have positioned Office 365 more prominently on their website than Office 2016. Subscriptions are a more steady revenue model for them. It’s also more lucrative since many businesses in the past have just skipped versions of Office: for example, a business using Office 2007 could skip an upgrade to Office 2010 and instead wait for Office 2013. If Microsoft can get a customer like that to sign up for Office 365, then over that six-year period the customer is paying them more than if they purchased traditional licenses and skipped a version.
So Office 365 is here to stay and Microsoft is trying to convince as many people as possible to jump on board. All in all, it’s not a bad idea to jump to Office 365, but just remember that it is a trade-off. (If you’re wondering about what is best for your business, give Mirazon a call. We’ll help you weigh the options.) But if you’re not yet ready to drink the Office 365 Kool-Aid and instead want to stay with traditional licensing, you’ve come to the right place. Here’s what you need to know…
Office 2016 Licensing
First of all, is it even possible to still buy traditional licenses for Office 2016?Yes! You can still purchase permanent licenses for Office 2016 through one of Microsoft’s volume licensing programs.
What are the available suites? For a business owner, your choices are Office 2016 Standard or Office 2016 Professional Plus. You can also purchase Office 2016 for Mac Standard, if you have employees with Macs.
What are the feature sets of each version? After probing the depths of the Office.com website, I finally found a page that provides a feature comparison of the Office 2016 suites.
Office 2016 Standard gives you:
Office 2016 Mac Key
- Word
- Excel
- PowerPoint
- OneNote
- Outlook
- Publisher
- Office Online
Office 2016 for Mac Standard gives you all of that except for Publisher.
Office 2016 Professional Plus includes everything in Office 2016 Standard, plus:
- Access
- the desktop application of Skype for Business
- a few enterprise features related to archiving, business intelligence, communication, security, and collaboration. (See the link above for more details.)
How much does Office 2016 cost? Here are the MSRP prices for licenses without Software Assurance in the Open Licensing program:
- Office 2016 Standard: $373.00
- Office 2016 for Mac Standard: $373.00
- Office 2016 Professional: $508.00
If you’re wondering about whether or not to buy Software Assurance (SA) with your new Office licenses, check out my post here. Some other Mirazon blog posts you might be interested in include my discussion about how one Office license sometimes can be used to install Office on two devices, and how to license Office in a remote desktop environment with traditional licenses or with Office 365 subscriptions. Related posts written by our engineers include how Office 2016 does not support Exchange 2007, and how to deploy Office 365/2016 in your environment.
Download Office 2016 Mac
So as Mark Twain would say, “The report of my death was an exaggeration.” Despite what you may have been lead to believe, Office 2016 is alive and well.