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Thursday, December 07, 2006 10:04 AM

Open XML Converters for Mac Office

There’s been a bit of flak about the Office Open XML file format converters for Mac Office. Sheridan posted an update on MacMojo, and Schwieb weighed in regarding some of the comments that people have made. There’s quite a bit of speculation gong on,
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Tuesday, June 07, 2005 2:04 AM

The Beginning of the Endian

So the rumors have been true. Apple is moving to Intel processors, which, in some ways, makes sense. At least it does from Apple's point of view. The Kool-Aid has never really affected their ability to figure out what's right for Apple regardless of the
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Wednesday, June 01, 2005 11:11 PM

Microsoft Office Open XML Formats

Scoble dropped the hint , and Mary Jo Foley spilled the beans . C|New has also jumped the gun on this . There's a piece on Channel 9 over here , and it won't be long before the official press release is here . (I waited more than 10 minutes past the deadline,
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Friday, June 25, 2004 12:24 AM

Scripting Word

Scripting Word Now, this is weird. My more recent tasks have involved working with both the Word testers and the automated testing group to iron out some ways that we can improve on testing. In particular, now that Word has a more complete AppleScript
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Sunday, May 30, 2004 11:05 PM

Repro, Man

Repro, Man Written communication is amazingly difficult. Even when you’re aware of some of the pitfalls, as I was when I wrote my last post about the disk full save error in Word, it’s still all too easy say something that other people will
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Wednesday, May 19, 2004 7:06 PM

Mac Office 2004 Launched

Mac Office 2004 Launched Since Mac Office 2004 is available in stores, we've announced that it's available. For those of you who follow Mac news sources, you already know this. But, Joe Wilcox, over at Jupiter Research, posted a nice article about Using
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Friday, April 30, 2004 6:57 PM

Where's Rick?

Where's Rick? Wow, leave blogging aside for a while, and the world just passes you by. The past few weeks have been so busy, that I haven’t even been able to read the blogs I follow. I fired up NetNewsWire this evening, and there were over 700 posts
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Tuesday, April 06, 2004 7:04 AM

It's Official

It's Official The press release went out at midnight, so I can talk a little bit about Mac Office 2004 in general and Mac Word 2004 in particular. Just a note on release terminology: some articles you’ll read refer to a “release to manufacturing”
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Saturday, March 27, 2004 5:16 AM

Display Only HTML

Display Only HTML Sorry I haven’t blogged for a while. There haven’t been a lot of quick links to blog about, and Dennis Cheung has beaten me to the punch on others. I’ve also been a tad bit under the weather, and my scant free time
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Wednesday, March 17, 2004 2:19 PM

Mac Word Notes View and OneNote

Mac Word Notes View and OneNote Chris Pratley has blogged about OneNote , with a number of follow-ups here , here and here . Now that we’ve released a demo of Mac Office 2004 that mentions the new Notebook Layout View in Word for the Macintosh,
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Saturday, February 28, 2004 9:16 PM

More on "Mac-Like"

In the comments to my article on Mac Word 6.0, Chris Hanson said, “I'm surprised it was that hard for Microsoft to discover what ‘Mac-like’ meant.” Michael Tsai expressed a similar thought , in that he wonders why we needed to
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Saturday, February 28, 2004 5:23 PM

Marketing vs. Marketing

Well, I’d written about half of this post when Chris Pratley posted this . Fortunately, what I’d written dovetailed with Chris’ remarks rather well. Chris is a Group Program Manager in Authoring Services group, and he’s been responsible
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Thursday, February 26, 2004 2:08 AM

Mac Word 6.0

Mom always said, “The only good thing about beating your head against the wall is that it feels good when you stop.” Well, sorry Mom, but that’s not fully true. While you’re sitting on the couch buried beneath an ice pack, you
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