Samuel Axon, writing for Are Technica:

Microsoft has released a major Office update for Mac. Update 16.9.0 finally brings long-anticipated real-time collaboration features and automatic cloud saving. Notably, the Mac version of this software is now built from the same codebase as the Windows version, which means that Office shares a codebase across all platforms for the first time in 20 years.

This bodes well for Mac-using lawyers, and really for all Mac users who use Office in a mixed-platform environment. I don’t expect to ever see complete feature parity, but this might get us closer. I use Word on both Windows and Mac, and require some brain re-wiring each time I jump between them. Tools such as Quick Parts work differently on each platform.