It’s Coming: Mac BU Announces Intent to Deliver Office 2008 for Mac
I've been asked by a university recently about Entourage 2008 which I previously knew even less about than Entourage 2004 – not being a Mac user. So this has led onto a number of discoveries for resources both internally at Microsoft and also on the Web including the site that the title this blog post comes from:
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2007/jan07/01-09MacworldPR.mspx
SAN FRANCISCO — Jan. 9, 2007 — Microsoft Corp.'s Macintosh Business Unit (Mac BU) today revealed at Macworld Conference & Expo 2007 the news Mac fans have been waiting to hear: A new version of Office for Mac is on its way. The Mac BU announced its intent to deliver the first Universal version of Office for Mac for PowerPC- and Intel-based Macs — Microsoft® Office 2008 for Mac. Scheduled to be available in the second half of 2007, Office 2008 for Mac will allow Mac users to work smarter and more efficiently with new and enhanced tools that are simple, intuitive and easily discovered.
"For more than two decades, Microsoft has been committed to delivering quality and innovation on the Macintosh platform while retaining unparalleled compatibility with PCs," said Roz Ho, general manager of the Mac BU at Microsoft. "Office 2008 is, by far, the most comprehensive, Mac-complementary productivity suite we've developed to date. I've witnessed firsthand the progression of this product, and am excited to think about the possibilities that soon will be available to our customers when Office 2008 launches later this year."
Microsoft conducted extensive customer research to determine which enhancements to make to its Word, Excel®, PowerPoint® and Entourage® applications. As a result, Office 2008 for Mac is packed with new tools to help Mac users better manage the business of life.
There are also some links on this page to Inside Microsoft Office 2008 for Macintosh
REDMOND, Wash., Jan. 9, 2007 — Microsoft continues to deliver world-class technology products for the Mac platform – as it has for more than 20 years. Founded in 1997, Microsoft's Macintosh Business Unit (Mac BU) is a leading developer of productivity software for Mac customers worldwide. Currently available products include Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac, a productivity suite that is comprised of the e-mail application and personal-information manager Entourage 2004, Word 2004, Excel 2004 and PowerPoint 2004; and Microsoft Messenger for Mac 6.0.
Which is an interview of Roz Ho, the General Manager of Microsoft's Business Unit.
And there's the Entourage MVP website
http://www.entourage.mvps.org/
And this one (which doesn't seem to be updated very often:
http://blogs.msdn.com/entourage/
From a background of zero knowledge I've now managed to amass a good deal more.
