Release dates

The following tables document release dates, major updates and maintenance updates for Office 98 Macintosh Edition through Office for Mac 2011.

Office 2011 for Mac
Version	Release Date	Milestone
14.0.0	October 26, 2010	Major release – Supports Mac OS X 10.5.8 or later
14.0.1	November 9, 2010
14.0.2	December 13, 2010
14.1	April 12, 2011	Service Pack 1
14.1.1	April 21, 2011	Available only for Japanese language editions.
14.1.2	June 14, 2011
14.1.3	September 13, 2011
14.1.4	December 13, 2011
14.2	April 12, 2012	Service Pack 2
14.2.1	April 25, 2012	Out of band release to address multiple issues caused by the 14.2 update including data loss when upgrading Outlook database.
14.2.2	May 8, 2012
14.2.3	July 10, 2012
14.2.4	September 19, 2012	Out-of-band release adding support for MacBook Pros with Retina displays and other fixes.
14.2.5	November 13, 2012
14.3	January 29, 2013	Service Pack 3. Includes support for Office 365.
14.3.1	February 11, 2013
14.3.2	March 12, 2013
14.3.4	May 7, 2013
	January 12, 2016	Support ends

Office for Mac 2008
Version	Release Date	Milestone
12.0.0	January 15, 2008	Major release – Supports Mac OS X 10.4.9 or later
12.0.1	March 14, 2008
12.1.0	May 4, 2008	Service Pack 1
12.1.1	June 24, 2008
12.1.2	August 12, 2008
12.1.3	October 14, 2008
12.1.4	October 30, 2008	Out of band release to fix a calendar issue preventing Exchange account from sending meeting invitations and responses.
12.1.5	December 9, 2008
12.1.9	June 9, 2009	Readies Office 2008 for Entourage, Web Services Edition release.
12.2.0	July 20, 2009	Service Pack 2
12.2.1	August 6, 2009	Out of band release to address error messages similar to “Microsoft Excel cannot open the file. You may have to download the latest updates for Office for Mac. Do you want to visit the Microsoft Web site for more information?”
13.0.0	August 13, 2009	Microsoft releases Entourage, Web Services Edition.
12.3.0	June 14, 2011
12.3.1	September 13, 2011
12.3.2	December 13, 2011
12.3.3	May 8, 2012
12.3.4	September 19, 2012	Out-of-band release coinciding with out-of-band release for Office 2011 14.2.4 update.
12.3.5	November 13, 2012
12.3.6	March 12, 2013
	April 9, 2013	Support ends

Office for Mac 2004
Version	Release Date	Milestone
11.0.0	May 11, 2004	Major release – Supports Mac OS X 10.2.8 through 10.6.8
11.1.0	October 12, 2004	Service Pack 1
11.1.1	March 2, 2005
11.2.0	September 22, 2005	Service Pack 2
11.2.1	October 20, 2005
11.3.0	October 6, 2006
11.4.0	February 12, 2008
11.4.1	March 11, 2008
11.4.2	May 13, 2008
11.5.0	June 24, 2008
11.5.1	August 12, 2008
11.5.2	October 14, 2008
11.5.3	December 9, 2008
11.5.4	April 14, 2009
11.5.5	June 9, 2009
	October 13, 2009	Microsoft extends support until January 2012 due to lack of VBA in Office 2008.
11.5.6	November 10, 2009
11.5.7	February 9, 2010
11.5.8	March 9, 2010
11.5.9	June 8, 2010
11.6.0	August 10, 2010
11.6.1	October 12, 2010
11.6.2	October 15, 2010
11.6.3	April 12, 2011
11.6.4	June 14, 2011
11.6.5	September 13, 2011
11.6.6	December 13, 2011
	January 10, 2012	Support ends

Office X for Mac
Version	Release Date	Milestone
10.0.0	November 19, 2001	Major release – Supports Mac OS X 10.1 through 10.4.9
10.0.1	January 2002
10.1	May 2002
10.1.2	November 9, 2002
10.1.3	January 3, 2003
10.1.4	August 4, 2003	Introduces Exchange support in Entourage.
10.1.5	September 4, 2003
10.1.6	October 12, 2004
10.1.7	July 5, 2006
10.1.8	October 6, 2006
2006-12-19	December 19, 2006
10.1.9	January 9, 2007
	January 9, 2007	Support ends

Office 2001 for Mac
Version	Release Date	Milestone
9.0.0	October 11, 2000	Major release – Supports Mac OS 8.1 through 9.2.2
9.0.2
9.0.4	September 11, 2003
9.0.5	October 12, 2004
9.0.6	July 20, 2005
	December 31, 2005	Support ends

Office 98 Macintosh Edition
Version	Release Date	Milestone
	March 15, 1998	Major release – Supports System 7.5 through Mac OS 9.2.2
Microsoft Office 98 Mac OS 9 Updater	December 24, 1999	Addresses Y2K compatibility issues.
Microsoft Word 98 / PowerPoint 98 Updater
Combined Updater for Office 98
Microsoft Word 98 Security Update: Macro Vulnerability
Microsoft PowerPoint / Excel 98 Macro Vulnerability Update
Microsoft Office 98 SSL Security Update	October 16, 2002
Outlook 98 Update: E-mail Security	March 26, 2004
	June 30, 2003	Support ends

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