Microsoft Mac BU launches blog

"Entourage has some issues"

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.