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Microsoft MacBU Global MVP Summit 2007
Microsoft Mac developer David Weiss points to the Macintosh Business Unit's upcoming Global MVP Summit 2007, which will be bringing MVPs to Redmond for some Wii gaming and Mac Office feedback. Apparently, MVPs ("Most Valuable Professionals") are non-Microsoft employees that participate in Microsoft's "technical communities" who, in virtue of being super helpful to other users, have been selected to receive this honor(?). These MVPs (who must sign NDAs) then gain access to betas of upcoming Microsoft products and are able to offer suggestions and feedback to the MacBU as well as moderate forums and even man the Microsoft booth at Macworld. MVPs also maintain a variety of helpful information sites like this one for Mac Word and this one for Entourage. There is even information on becoming a MVP, so if you've ever had a burning desire to become a MacBU lackey here's your chance! (I kid, I kid!)[Via David Weiss]
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jason mark said 10:24AM on 3-15-2007
You joke, but I have to say Office for the Mac is 100% better than Office for the PC, and is well worth the money.
As the owner of an 8 person mac web development company, we use Office day-in and day out. Apple's Mail app is *almost* there for prime time, but I've been saying that for 3 years now. They keep adding "features" instead of making it usable for large quantities of mail. In terms of sharing documents with clients, Word and Excel are it. There's just no competing with them, and they work. We explored some of the open source and other office apps on the mac and as a business owner, each time a program crashes and looses data, it costs me between $5 and $25 in lost work. Plus the frustration factor. If these programs crash once a month, it's still well worth it for me to purchase office!
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Me said 10:37AM on 3-15-2007
Mac Office is crap compared to the Windows versions. I hate the floating toolbars, they take up too much screen space.
I am happy to now be able to run Office 2007 via Parallels/Coherence on my MacBook. (The Windows version of Office runs much faster than Office 2004, too)
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Scott F said 9:16PM on 3-15-2007
Does the Windows version of PP default to placing the toolbars over the window title, hiding the close/minimize/maximize buttons and the document name. Do they also obscure the name of the file when you save?
We should all do our part to eliminate Powerpoint from our lives. Not only are PP presentations insulting and a waste of time, the program itself is absolute crap.
20 years later, and no style sheets in a graphic presentation program? WTF?
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