The Home and Business version matches the Home and Student version plus Outlook 2011, which replaces the Entourage mail, calendar, and contact manager app in recent versions. The Home and Student version includes Word 2011, Excel 2011, PowerPoint 2011. Office for the Mac comes in two versions, a Home and Student Version (single user package, $119 three-user family package $149) and a Home and Business Version (single user package, $199 licensed for two machines, $279). Overall, it's the best office suite ever for using the Mac as a serious platform for getting work done. Office for the Mac still has some minor weaknesses, and at least one feature that's less powerful in than the previous version-Office no longer syncs calendars with iCal.

For the first time, OS X has an office suite I can imagine using full-time. I used to suspect Microsoft of deliberately holding back Office for the Mac so that Windows users wouldn't be tempted to abandon Windows for OS X. If you're a casual, light-duty office-suite user or a student, iWork '09 ($79, 4 stars) is still a great option, but if you've got heavy-duty work to perform on the Mac, you'll want Office for the Mac 2011. It even includes a few features that outclass anything in its Windows-based counterpart, Microsoft Office 2010 ($499, 4 stars). Compared with Office for the Mac 2008 and its predecessors, Office 2011 is innovative, better-designed, startlingly faster, vastly more powerful, and far more compatible with Office for Windows. After a string of disappointing releases, the new Mac version of the world's most widely-used office suite is a spectacular success, and an unexpected triumph for Microsoft's Macintosh group.

With Microsoft Office for the Mac 2011 (Home and Student version, $119 Home and Business version, $199), Microsoft has finally gotten it right.

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