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Office 2008 for Mac in second half of 2007

The Microsoft BU has just announced that Office 2008 for Mac will be released in the second half of 2007. Office 2008 will be Universal (hurrah!) and include a number of Mac only features:
  • Publishing Layout Views - Let's you create newsletters and things by presenting the related Office tools in a new layout
  • Ledger Sheets - Makes managing your finances even easier in Excel
  • My Day - A new stand alone application that lets you stay on top of your activities across Office applications
Office 2008 for Mac will the new Office Open XML Formats from the get go so it'll be compatible with Office 2007 on Windows. Check out this interview with Roz Ho, general manager of the Mac BU to get some juicy details.


The Microsoft BU has just announced that Office 2008 for Mac will be released in the second half of 2007. Office 2008 will be Universal...
 

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Glen L. Harvey

Unfortunately the removal and it will be removed of VB Scripting capabilites for offcie 2008 will have a far reaching affect on all mac users in a windows environment. The work around is supposedly using realbasic. I am interested in find out more people are going to handle this situation. My understanding is that applescript will be the scripting language but that doesn't even begin to help with cross platform issues does it. Will there ever be a non-microsoft cross platform solution to the Office horror story ? BTW don't forget your converters you will need them...

January 10 2007 at 7:14 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
BrianM

If VBA isn't included, in my opinion they might as well not bother...

January 09 2007 at 10:03 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Bearxor

Patrick, while I completely agree with you, Entourage is not going anywhere. All I really want from Microsoft is a carbonized version of Outlook 2001. Entourage works great for home users but sucks badly for corporate users on an Exchange server.

January 09 2007 at 9:25 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Tony Ward

Thank God the IT department at work is skeptical of Office 2007... personally, I'm looking forward to staving off the "ribbon" for as long as possible. =P

January 09 2007 at 8:46 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Jacques Lema

You have to admire the perverted minds at Microsoft that came up with the "Office Open XML" name, just to confuse anyone hearing about OpenOffice's XML based format.

January 09 2007 at 8:01 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Patrick Lewis

In the meantime, only 10 more months of explaining to my clients why Entourage is a giant POS and bogs down once they have any significant amount of data in their mailbox/calendar despite the fact that Outlook 2001 was able to work just fine for them 5 years ago. Thanks Microsoft!

January 09 2007 at 7:32 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
andrew

Yes! The future for Apple looks real bright! Leopard, iPhone, Universal Office 2008, AppleTV........the first 30 were really the beginning!

And anyways, i'm sick of the long time it takes for the current Office. And its ugly.

January 09 2007 at 6:47 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Frank Lloyd Wright

Am I correct in remembering that VBA will no longer be part of Office for Mac as of this release? They plan to cut what is, for Excel at least, the program's most important distinguishing feature.

January 09 2007 at 6:45 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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