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October 2006 - Posts

Saturday, October 28, 2006 9:32 PM

PowerPoint Links

I've been thinking about doing a PowerPoint links post for a long time. Communications is one of those skills that can really open new doors for you in business, and being able to communicate your ideas in a fresh way can make a big difference in your
Posted by Brianjo | 5 Comments
Thursday, October 26, 2006 2:39 PM

thanks!

thanks for getting people to sign up for the upcoming Entourage/PowerPoint usability test!
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Monday, October 23, 2006 3:27 PM

Closet space, the final frontier

The last event of C4 was a visit to Chicago's Adler Planetarium, with a special behind the scenes (and beneath the stairs) tour of the computer room that runs the video conferencing room and the CyberSpace classroom. Well, "room" is charitable. "Closet"
Posted by Office for Mac | 5 Comments
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Monday, October 23, 2006 2:56 PM

Checking out and checking in

C4 is over and I'm back in Seattle, which means these last two posts will be Almost Live-blogging C4. I get about 60 emails every day from a robot. Well, not a robot that moves around, but our version control system -- the server that manages our project's
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Saturday, October 21, 2006 6:02 PM

The Peaceable Kingdom

More from Olof at C4. Curiously, there's a lot less Microsoft bashing at C4 than there was at WWDC. Sure, even at WWDC the Microsoft - Apple rivalry has gotten better-natured, but Microsoft used to get much worse treatment among the Mac indie developer
Posted by Office for Mac | 5 Comments
Saturday, October 21, 2006 10:14 AM

Film at Eleven

It's Olof again, liveblogging from C4. John Gruber took us on a tour of Apple User Interface last night, and talked about consistency and uniformity. But he really got the thought provokage started with the observation "Designing an app is like directing
Posted by Office for Mac | 6 Comments
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Friday, October 20, 2006 7:04 PM

C4 is Teh Bomb

Hi - I'm Olof. I guess I'm the first "guest blogger" on MacMojo. I'm a developer on the Mac Office team, and for the weekend, I'm in Chicago at C4. I have a really strong sense of what C4 is going to be like, even though I've never been to one before.
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Friday, October 20, 2006 3:35 PM

Looking Back

Before I get started, I suppose some sort of introduction is appropriate for readers who have only recently discovered that some of us in the Mac BU are bloggers. I'm Rick Schaut. I've been blogging since February of 2004. Here is a short bio I wrote
Posted by Rick Schaut | 24 Comments
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Friday, October 20, 2006 9:24 AM

Bay Area Mac users needed

we need PowerPoint:Mac and Entourage:Mac users to particpate in an upcoming usability study
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Wednesday, October 18, 2006 9:45 PM

A day in my life at the macbu ...

Fair warning, this is not a description of a typical programmer’s day. I am not a typical programmer, in fact my wife constantly reminds me that my sanity is also questionable, but I do love my job and I live quite far from it … oh and I don’t have any
Posted by ExCntx | 9 Comments
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Wednesday, October 18, 2006 4:55 PM

Sweet Sixteen

Just a quick update: Recently we got our blog stats for our first month on the net as the Official MacBU Team blog. The results? Of the 3,500 blogs on MSDN, Mac Mojo came in as the 16th most viewed blog! Not bad for a beginning Mac blog at Microsoft.
Posted by David Weiss | 8 Comments
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Monday, October 16, 2006 11:31 AM

trash talkin'

Charity and cheesecake come together in the annual MacBU bake auction.
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Monday, October 16, 2006 9:51 AM

Productivity Links

I spent a lot of time this weekend thinking about links, but I couldn't come up with a really good set to put together. Then I was reading Paul Stamatiou's excellent post, How To: Cultivate That Killer Idea , and it made me think about the great productivity
Posted by Brianjo | 6 Comments
Thursday, October 12, 2006 1:27 AM

Office Delay? Ya Don't Say.

No, seriously, you don't say (or shouldn't), because it isn't true. Over the last few days, some Mac sites have been reporting that the Universal Binary version of Office for Mac (officially unnamed, but currently code-named Office 12) has been delayed,
Posted by sherjo | 45 Comments
Tuesday, October 10, 2006 12:58 PM

Mac Office Updates

Today we released update 11.3.0 for Office 2004 for Mac. You can get this update through Microsoft AutoUpdate or you can download it from the Mactopia site. You can trigger the update yourself by clicking Check for Update from the Help menu of your favorite
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Tuesday, October 10, 2006 10:29 AM

Trouble signing in with Messenger for Mac 6.0?

Ah, weekends. Time off, down time from thinking about bugs. Well, not if you’re Rebecca, one of our star Messenger testers. Starting on Friday night, September 29, Rebecca was casually checking out the Messenger Newsgroup. (Hopefully this was after dinner
Posted by Mary Starman | 55 Comments
Saturday, October 07, 2006 11:25 PM

Mac Office Resource Links

Ever have one of those really busy weeks where you can't even remember what you did at the end of the week? I'm having one of those. Not complaining though, we've got a lot of interesting stuff we're doing at work, unfortunately not too much I can talk
Posted by Brianjo | 5 Comments
Friday, October 06, 2006 8:52 AM

Incremental mojo

Hello, another introduction for you – my name is Geoff Price, and I’m the Product Unit Manager for MacBU in Redmond. This is MS speak for saying I have responsibility for the core engineering teams here (development, testing, program management and user
Posted by Geoff Price | 13 Comments
Tuesday, October 03, 2006 12:47 PM

of babies and bathwater

What do we mean when we say that we went back to the drawing board?
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Monday, October 02, 2006 12:02 PM

Site funkiness - thanks for your patience

FYI - last night the servers that host all 3,500 MSDN blogs (including ours) were upgraded to a new version. Unfortunately, during the migration our site's customized 'look and feel' reverted to one of the default skins - pretty ugly! We also apologize
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