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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 | 88 Comments
Wednesday, December 12, 2007 3:45 PM

It's About Data

In my Calendar post , I touched on some of the work we’ve done in our Entourage 2008 reliability focus. I’d like to continue that discussion today with some details about our efforts in another critical area, the Entourage Database. Apart from a few exceptions
Posted by rkmiec | 45 Comments
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Tuesday, November 27, 2007 10:36 AM

PowerPoint to Go

Getting presentations from PowerPoint 2008 for Mac to your iPod or iPhone is easy. PowerPoint exports your presentation as a series of pictures directly to iPhoto, or saves those same slide images as pictures to your Pictures folder. From there, sync pictures to your iPod or iPhone through iTunes as usual, then use the built-in Photos or slide show program on your iPod or iPhone to show your presentation. No sweat!
Posted by blairn | 32 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 | 171 Comments
Monday, October 29, 2007 9:56 AM

There's a new cat in town

+ Click here to enlarge Apple’s newest version of Mac OS X , called Leopard, was released into the wild at 6pm local time on October 26 th . I’ve seen a number of people asking about how compatible Mac Office is with Leopard, and I thought I’d chime in
Posted by Schwieb | 69 Comments
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Tuesday, October 23, 2007 5:07 PM

Object Palette

There is a new tool in town… the Object Palette. This new tool lives in the Toolbox and allows you to quickly find and insert images into your document. The OP, as it is nicknamed, is designed to provide quick access to the following commonly used objects:
Posted by Bart Chellis | 12 Comments
Friday, October 19, 2007 8:42 PM

The Smart in SmartArt

I use Office every day to communicate – email, documents, presentations, spreadsheets. I like to use visual aids to improve my communication -- it’s invaluable to reinforce your ideas with graphics, and if it looks cool, even better. How do you take a
Posted by Derek Snook | 7 Comments
Thursday, October 11, 2007 7:50 AM

Welcome to Word Publishing Layout View

In my previous post, the focus of attention was our new Office 2008 User Experience. For this post, I will turn the focus to another area that I am deeply passionate about --- Microsoft Word 2008. At MacBU, many of us have the great fortune to work on
Posted by Han-yi Shaw | 45 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
Saturday, October 06, 2007 2:08 AM

Toolbox and Window Management

The Toolbox is a useful new collection of tools that was introduced in Office 2004. The primary concept was to prevent the possibility of many palettes being opened at once causing a window management problem for users. In general, it worked fairly well,
Posted by Bart Chellis | 21 Comments
Saturday, October 06, 2007 1:17 AM

The Chart is the Message

Did you know that someone once wrote a book entitled How to Lie With Charts? It’s true; check it out . The book was a tongue-in-cheek welcome gift when I took over Excel program management. Truth be told, I haven’t read it. It could be quite good; the
Posted by stuartde | 22 Comments
Tuesday, September 25, 2007 11:20 AM

OfficeArt Unleashed

You’ve been reading about our goal to make great looking documents easier in Office 2008, and this includes the document graphics you use to express ideas and emotions. The Art of Office is a reminder that picture formatting and drawing tools are well-established
Posted by Derek Snook | 15 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
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