“We don’t have a public date or version for a final release this is an initial peek for customers to test on hardware they may be acquiring this week,” the engineer wrote in his tweet.Īt its virtual event on Tuesday, Apple highlighted the arrival of Universal apps that are meant to natively run on the new M1 chip-powered Mac machines. It doesn’t carry any new features but comes with support for the Apple silicon that was unveiled earlier this week. The beta release of Office for Mac also comes just ahead of the debut of the new MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, and Mac mini that are based on the latest silicon.Īs announced by Microsoft’s principal software engineer for Apple products Erik Schwiebert on Twitter, the Universal build of Mac Office 2019 has been released on the beta channel. With the new move, the Redmond company has become one of the early third-party developers to embrace Apple’s “Universal apps” model to support the new ARM-based architecture. The latest Office version is initially available through a beta channel, though its final release would take some time. Microsoft Office is being released Mac machines that includes support for Apple silicon.
