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Saturday, December 22, 2007 2:10 AM

Ship It, Ship It Good

Hello everyone, I thought this would be good time to jump in and introduce myself. I’m the Director of Marketing and Planning for MacBU – a longtime ‘softie and closing in on my first anniversary in the Macintosh Business Unit. Like most of us in MacBU,
Posted by Pat Fox | 37 Comments
Wednesday, December 12, 2007 4:36 PM

Office 2008 Hits RTM

Here’s the latest official word – Office 2008 for Mac has Released to Manufacturing (RTM)! We’re very pleased to announce that the product team has signed off, and our final build has left the building and is en route to manufacturing sites abroad. Needless
Posted by Geoff Price | 86 Comments
Wednesday, November 21, 2007 1:24 PM

Office 2008 for Mac: BFD!

BFD! Big Friday Deals. Best Friday Destinations. The mall, online - wherever I can find them, I love a bargain. And there is no better bargain-hunting day than Black Friday , the day after Thanksgiving. En masse, we will drag our L-tryptophan dosed selves
Posted by sherjo | 170 Comments
Monday, October 08, 2007 4:08 PM

Update on Office 2008 progress!

Last Wednesday was our general “ZBB” target for the Office 2008 project, a major milestone on the road to release and something we’ve been pushing hard for over the past several months. We saw some fantastic surging by the development team to clear out
Posted by Geoff Price | 55 Comments
Tuesday, September 25, 2007 9:50 AM

“Velkommen, Tervetuloa, Velkommen” and “Bienvenue à Paris”

So the cat is out of the bag! This morning, as the doors to Apple Expo opened, we officially announced the availability of Office 2008 worldwide from January 15 (dates will vary by markets). As part of the announcement, we also announced a new “Nordic
Posted by eric.paquin | 35 Comments
Monday, September 24, 2007 11:44 PM

Hello from Paris Expo!

Amanda Lefebvre and I are here at Paris Expo - we're just ready to go over to the show floor now for the first time,and today we'll be talking to folks from Macworld UK, MacUser, MacFormat, ZDNet France and some other French outlets too, not to mention
Posted by sherjo | 27 Comments
Wednesday, August 29, 2007 12:09 AM

Announcing Art of Office

The MacBU is excited to announce a new user-generated community site, Art of Office . Art of Office is a place for people to submit artistic and/or useful content made using Office applications (Word, Excel, or PowerPoint). Whether it’s creating pixel
Posted by joeleblanc | 56 Comments
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Thursday, August 02, 2007 5:20 AM

Office 2008 Coming January 2008

We announced today that Office 2008 for Mac will be released to manufacturing (“RTM”) this December, which will allow for retail availability in the US in mid-January (planning for Macworld), and allow us to deliver Office 2008 to our volume license customers
Posted by CraigE | 198 Comments
Tuesday, July 31, 2007 2:57 PM

Come and get it! RDC for Mac v2 beta

RDC v2 beta is here!
Posted by nadyne | 55 Comments
Friday, June 08, 2007 5:08 PM

Hello from the new General Manager of the Macintosh Business Unit - Craig Eisler

Hi folks, Wow! I can’t believe I’m actually here - General Manager of Microsoft’s Macintosh Business Unit. I would not have guessed this is where I would’ve landed when I rejoined Microsoft. But after looking at several great options over the course of
Posted by CraigE | 79 Comments
Tuesday, May 15, 2007 10:56 AM

Get converted

As previously announced, and as indicated by the lower frequency in blogcasting here, everyone at MacBU is exceedingly busy completing Office 2008, which is on track for release later this year. This work is our primary focus, and is the largest undertaking
Posted by Geoff Price | 57 Comments
Wednesday, March 28, 2007 4:01 PM

MacTech’s Mac Office VBA to AppleScript Transition Guide

Mac natives inside and outside of MacBU have provided their efforts and expertise to produce a guidebook to help you navigate the transition from VBA to AppleScript.
Posted by blairn | 21 Comments
Wednesday, March 14, 2007 1:31 AM

2007 Global MVP Summit

Starting this Wednesday and Thursday we will have our Global MVP Summit! What is this you ask? Glad you did. Let me tell you about it. First the acronym: MVP stands for Most Valuable Professional. Our MacBU MVPs are a small group of people that both represent
Posted by David Weiss | 12 Comments
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Tuesday, December 05, 2006 2:11 PM

Converters Coming! Free and (Fairly) Fast.

There's been some pretty alarmist news stories this morning ( apcstart.com ; CrunchGear ) about file format converters and Office for Mac. Because some of these stories seem designed more to inflame than inform, I want to reiterate our previously reported
Posted by sherjo | 104 Comments
Wednesday, November 01, 2006 12:00 AM

MacBOO to you! Happy Halloween and TidBITs Treats!

Today kicks off our official sponsorship of TidBITS , and it's a real Halloween treat for us to work with this legendary online newsletter (sixteen years and counting) and the amazing Adam and Tonya Engst. We've been talking to them a bunch since Macworld
Posted by sherjo | 2 Comments
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