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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, 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
Friday, October 26, 2007 11:00 PM

Welcome to London!

Another city, another expo! I’ve been travelling on and off since Apple Expo in Paris giving some Office 2008 training to Apple Store staff and key partners and resellers! It feels good to finally be able to show our new offering (well, part of it at
Posted by eric.paquin | 18 Comments
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Wednesday, September 26, 2007 5:12 PM

Microsoft at Apple Expo: It’s not all about Office!

So, my last post was in French... If you are wondering here's what it was all about! One thing different about the Microsoft stand at Apple Expo is that it is not all about Office! We look at what the Mac community is interested in and organize some presentations
Posted by eric.paquin | 24 Comments
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Wednesday, September 26, 2007 3:44 PM

Microsoft à Apple Expo: Pas seulement à propos d’Office

Ce que j’aime bien sur le stand de Microsoft à Apple Expo, c’est que ce n’est pas seulement à propos d’Office! Nous invitons différents intervenants pour montrer comment ils utilisent les différentes technologies de Microsoft ou encore pour discuter de
Posted by eric.paquin | 9 Comments
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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
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
Wednesday, May 23, 2007 11:24 AM

Silverlight Excitement

Are you excited about Silverlight? I am. In case you haven't heard, Silverlight is a new rich internet application platform developed by Microsoft with support on both Windows and Macintosh systems. It's pretty awesome. The Silverlight demos presented
Posted by blairn | 47 Comments
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Wednesday, March 28, 2007 7:44 AM

Spring cleaning

Spring is here and I don't know where the time has gone... So apologies for not posting earlier! A short post today to tackle some questions I have heard and hopefully get your thoughts on these issues. To localize or not to localize Will Mac Office 2008
Posted by eric.paquin | 25 Comments
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Wednesday, January 31, 2007 6:30 PM

Confessions of a Mac Switcher at Microsoft

Hi. My name is Blair and I'm a switcher. I guess it all started around OS X. I'd been working in a Linux shop for a little while. On DOS and Windows before that. I was already hooked on the command line, but couldn't find a windowing environment that
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Tuesday, January 30, 2007 11:29 AM

Introducing a “certain je-ne-sais-quoi”

A new year, a new blogger! Today’s post is all about me! I’m taking the plunge in the Mojo so let me introduce myself! I’m Eric Paquin, International Project Manager and totally new to the art of blogging (please be patient)! So, what can I bring to the
Posted by eric.paquin | 28 Comments
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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
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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 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
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