

“Most of our cloud-powered innovation is coming to Office 365 and Microsoft 365,” Microsoft said. Office 2019 is targeted at customers unable to move to the cloud in the near term, with Microsoft maintaining its strategy to shift customers to its cloud-based Office 365 offering.

Microsoft said consumer versions would be available “in the coming weeks”. Office 2019 is now available for commercial customers, specifically volume-licensed customers who have a specific need for on-premises or hybrid deployment. It includes Word 2019, Excel 2019, PowerPoint 2019 and Outlook 2019, with Publisher 2019, Access 2019, Project 2019 and Visio 2019 included in the Windows version. Like the 2016 version, the suite is available as a one-time purchase. These can increase the performance of your graphics card even further, but beware-they may break functionality like the ability to change the brightness of your display.Microsoft has launched its Office 2019 software suite for commercial users of Windows and MacOS as an update to Office 2016. If you want to play games, you'll probably want to go and find the latest drivers for the particular graphics card in your Mac from either AMD or NVIDIA. While you can set up tap-to-click and two-finger right-clicking, it just doesn't feel as nice as in macOS. Unfortunately, the trackpad doesn't behave so well on Windows, either.

Your mileage may vary, but it definitely doesn't stand up to macOS. You'll most likely lose a few hours of battery life running Windows-with some reports of a 50% reduction in battery life. Windows, designed to run on lots of different hardware, is nowhere near as optimized, and it shows. However, on the downside, if you use a MacBook, you may see some reductions in battery life and loss of functionality with your trackpad, as Apple designed it to work with macOS. That's because, generally speaking, a lot of games are written for Windows first and will often use DirectX (a Microsoft technology) the same games on macOS will have to make do with different technology, OpenGL, which is cross-platform and well-supported but generally less efficient resulting in lower performance.
