Microsoft Mac BU launches blog
I'm a blog booster (shocking, huh?) and I am all for open communications between gigantic faceless corporations and users. Microsoft has taken the lead with having its employees staff official, Microsoft hosted, blogs. It looks like the Mac Business Unit (the Mac BU) of Microsoft has thrown its hat into the blogging ring.Remember that Microsoft is the second largest Mac developer in the world (who is number one? Apple), so before you bash 'em in the comments remember that lots of people use Office very happily on their Macs.
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Source: http://blogs.msdn.com/macmojo/
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I'm a blog booster (shocking, huh?) and I am all for open communications between gigantic faceless corporations and users. Microsoft has...
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Wow, that's the best laugh I've had all week!
I don't mean this to an attack or anything, but I just commented on another, reputable, blog for a complete inability to find a link to the subject matter. This isn't much better. "Blogging ring" is a completely misleading phrase to link to when the target of the link, Microsoft's Mac BU blog is better served by "thrown its hat" as a phrase. Better yet: "thrown its hat into the Blogging ring with its [new blog]."
Best practices and solid writing for the web make things better for everyone.
I'm a whiz on office at my work. Some people say that I know Excel better than Bill Gates, and I bet I do. Unfortunately for me, I'm stuck on PCs at work.
I have office at home on my mac and I find it to be good software. I dont see why people bitch about it so much. With a few minor exceptions, I think office on teh mac is better than office on the PC.
OT
regarding the "IE" comment above.. IE for the mac was a very good browser for its time IMO. It was much better than its PC counterpart and by far the best browser on the Mac in the OS9/early OSX days. Opera charged money. Netscape Navigator was huge, ugly and slow. Camino was not born yet. Safari was still just a dream. It suffered from a lack of development later in its life, but there was nothing wrong with it.
@ #8: What hardware are you using?
It only takes 4 seconds to fire up on my MacBook, 2ghz & 2GB Ram.
I rarely notice it's running under Rosetta, except when hitting print I notice a slight lag compared with, say, Pages.
David, da reason Office boot up soo slow is that you're using a Intel Mac or a G3.
And i think Pages does no serious work at all.
Here's another blogger from the MAc BU:
http://davidweiss.blogspot.com/
Color me unimpressed.
I recommend OpenOfffice.org to anybody who asks, and those who don't.
C'mon people get off the MS kool-aid!
david,
do you have acrobat installed on your machine?
-deev
Uhm, Office almost flawless? Far from it, really. I also use it almost-daily, and while it works, it's generally slow as hell. Booting up Word takes way to long, which really shouldn't have to happen on the hardware that I use.
Don't get me wrong, I find it's great that Microsoft has Office for the Mac, but dang, upgrade the bastard will ya...
I agree with Justin. I would like to see some accounting for claims that MS is the second largest developer, based solely on Office for Mac. I often see this claim but NEVER do I see any numbers to back it up.
That said, I like the Mac BU. They do a nice job with Office, and while it's not flawless it is pretty close to it.
It's great that they are doing a Mac blog. Anything that increases their profile in the Mac community is a good thing for users and a good thing for them. It can only encourage more sales and more software development.
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