etc: Turns out our suggestion that Microsoft make a version of Office for the iPad wasn’t so far fetched—the MacBU is “looking at” developing it, according to senior product manager Mike Tedesco.
Turns out our suggestion that Microsoft make a version of Office for the iPad wasn’t so far fetched—the MacBU is “looking at” developing it, according to senior product manager Mike Tedesco.
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Students get discounts on Exchange-compatible Office for Mac
College isn’t cheap these days, even if you’re attending public university. In that case, pretty much any discount offered to students is welcome. Microsoft’s Mac Business Unit has just announced that it’s offering a special discount on the full Office 2008 Business Edition for US college students, offering them a 70 percent discount off the usual retail price. Even if you’re not a college student, though, the Mac BU is offering a range of “holiday” discounts on Office as well.
Office 2008 for Mac comes in two different editions. The Home & Student Edition includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Entourage, and usually sells for $149.95. The Business Edition, includes Entourage Web Services Edition, which is compatible with Exchange, as well as Document Connection for Mac, Automator actions, templates, clip art, and more; it normally sells for $399.95.
Students get discounts on Exchange-compatible Office for Mac
College isn’t cheap these days, even if you’re attending public university. In that case, pretty much any discount offered to students is welcome. Microsoft’s Mac Business Unit has just announced that it’s offering a special discount on the full Office 2008 Business Edition for US college students, offering them a 70 percent discount off the usual retail price. Even if you’re not a college student, though, the Mac BU is offering a range of “holiday” discounts on Office as well.
Office 2008 for Mac comes in two different editions. The Home & Student Edition includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Entourage, and usually sells for $149.95. The Business Edition, includes Entourage Web Services Edition, which is compatible with Exchange, as well as Document Connection for Mac, Automator actions, templates, clip art, and more; it normally sells for $399.95.
Week in Apple: Antiglare display returns to MBP, Snow Leopard and Outlook for Mac coming soon
Snow Leopard may be arriving far sooner than most of us expected, and Microsoft is dropping Entourage in order to replace it with a version of Outlook for the Mac. If that’s not exciting enough for this week, other top Apple news involved antiglare screens coming back to the MacBook Pro, more rumors about the Apple tablet, and possible Blu-ray support coming to iTunes. Read on for the roundup:
Snow Leopard cometh soon, brings installation tricks galore: The latest build seeded to developers has gone golden master and could be set for retail release any day now. The latest information suggests that installing Snow Leopard should be a breeze, too.
Office for Mac to get actual version of Outlook in 2010: Hell has frozen over: Microsoft’s Mac Business Unit says that the next version of Office for Mac will arrive in 2010 with a genuine Outlook client and better Exchange support.
Week in Apple: Antiglare display returns to MBP, Snow Leopard and Outlook for Mac coming soon
Snow Leopard may be arriving far sooner than most of us expected, and Microsoft is dropping Entourage in order to replace it with a version of Outlook for the Mac. If that’s not exciting enough for this week, other top Apple news involved antiglare screens coming back to the MacBook Pro, more rumors about the Apple tablet, and possible Blu-ray support coming to iTunes. Read on for the roundup:
Snow Leopard cometh soon, brings installation tricks galore: The latest build seeded to developers has gone golden master and could be set for retail release any day now. The latest information suggests that installing Snow Leopard should be a breeze, too.
Office for Mac to get actual version of Outlook in 2010: Hell has frozen over: Microsoft’s Mac Business Unit says that the next version of Office for Mac will arrive in 2010 with a genuine Outlook client and better Exchange support.
Office for Mac to get actual version of Outlook in 2010
Microsoft has announced some big news concerning the next major revision of Office for Mac: it is currently on track to ship late next year, and it will replace the much-maligned Entourage with a bona fide version of Outlook for Mac.
In the meantime, Microsoft’s Mac Business Unit has a final version of Entourage Web Services Edition ready for those who need better Exchange support now, and they will be packaging it in a new “Business Edition” of Office for Mac 2008 starting next month.
Seriously, it’s Outlook. For real.
You read the news right: Microsoft is finally making a real, actual, official, true, and correct version of Outlook for Mac OS X. This new application, which Mac BU general manager Eric Wilfrid told us he has been using for nearly a year, is built from the ground up to fully support Exchange’s latest protocols. Written in Cocoa to take advantage of the latest OS X technologies, Outlook for Mac will also have a completely redesigned database that will be compatible with Spotlight and Time Machine.
Office for Mac to get actual version of Outlook in 2010
Microsoft has announced some big news concerning the next major revision of Office for Mac: it is currently on track to ship late next year, and it will replace the much-maligned Entourage with a bona fide version of Outlook for Mac.
In the meantime, Microsoft’s Mac Business Unit has a final version of Entourage Web Services Edition ready for those who need better Exchange support now, and they will be packaging it in a new “Business Edition” of Office for Mac 2008 starting next month.
Seriously, it’s Outlook. For real.
You read the news right: Microsoft is finally making a real, actual, official, true, and correct version of Outlook for Mac OS X. This new application, which Mac BU general manager Eric Wilfrid told us he has been using for nearly a year, is built from the ground up to fully support Exchange’s latest protocols. Written in Cocoa to take advantage of the latest OS X technologies, Outlook for Mac will also have a completely redesigned database that will be compatible with Spotlight and Time Machine.
Microsoft releases Open XML fix for Mac Office 2008 SP2
Microsoft’s Mac Business Unit has released a minor update to Office 2008 for Mac that fixes a bug when opening Open XML files. The update, version 12.2.1, has just been posted to the Office for Mac downloads site.
The Open XML incompatibility came to light earlier this week after users began updating their versions of Office 2008 to Service Pack 2. Although SP2 came with a number of speed improvements and bug fixes, it also brought some strange behavior when users tried to open XML files generated by some versions of Office for Windows. In some cases, Office 2008 for Mac couldn’t identify which version of the XML format was being used, and therefore would not open the file.
Although the Mac BU had posted a list of workarounds (many of which suggested rolling back to a previous version of the software), these were obviously inconvenient for most users. Thankfully, the company stayed on top of the bug and released an update today that should fix the issue for Office 2008 SP2 users. According to software development lead Erik Schwiebert on Twitter, the English version is available now while other languages are coming “soon.”
Microsoft releases Open XML fix for Mac Office 2008 SP2
Microsoft’s Mac Business Unit has released a minor update to Office 2008 for Mac that fixes a bug when opening Open XML files. The update, version 12.2.1, has just been posted to the Office for Mac downloads site.
The Open XML incompatibility came to light earlier this week after users began updating their versions of Office 2008 to Service Pack 2. Although SP2 came with a number of speed improvements and bug fixes, it also brought some strange behavior when users tried to open XML files generated by some versions of Office for Windows. In some cases, Office 2008 for Mac couldn’t identify which version of the XML format was being used, and therefore would not open the file.
Although the Mac BU had posted a list of workarounds (many of which suggested rolling back to a previous version of the software), these were obviously inconvenient for most users. Thankfully, the company stayed on top of the bug and released an update today that should fix the issue for Office 2008 SP2 users. According to software development lead Erik Schwiebert on Twitter, the English version is available now while other languages are coming “soon.”
Office for Mac SP2 causes incompatibility with PC XML files
Microsoft Office for Mac 2008 Service Pack 2 included tons of welcome speed improvements and bug fixes. However, things may not be all smooth sailing, as the Mac Business Unit has discovered that the update also introduced incompatibilities with Office Open XML format files created with Office for Windows.
The problem doesn’t seem to affect every file, but there appears to be some differences between the XML generated by some Windows versions of Office and the official Office Open XML spec. Office for Mac 2008 updated with SP2 in some cases can’t identify which version of the XML format is used and won’t be able to open that file.
