MacBU introduces the "Art of Office"

I did a usability test for the shop that made this site earlier this year. It is nice to see that they implemented some of the changes into the site that I complained about.

That page is so INCREDIBLY slow...

I know this isn't the MacBU's fault. (Props to them and all)

But you know what would be nice? If MS would deliver the license code to Office that we paid for, oh, 27 days ago. That's right, I've got 3 days left on the trial version. Every time I save, Word helpfully reminds me that I should buy Office. Which I did 27 days ago. Not to mention that every email from Entourage says "Sent from Entourage 2004 Test Drive"

It's hard to love MS when they pull shenanigans like this.

Cool +1,000,000,000 to the first person who uses iWork and exports an office-compatible document to upload there!

Where's the "Art of iWork" template gallery?

I don't care about anything the MacBU does until they release a proper Exchange client for OS X. Until then, every time I have to launch Entourage it makes my day suck a little bit more than it would have otherwise.

Great! So that's where I'm supposed to upload my cool new MS Office malware document. Must be doing this quick though, since macro support is going to be dropped when MS finally releases its next version of Office for Mac. But then, there's Windows guys browsing that site too.

What an opportunity!

Trying to push the stereotype that all Mac users are artists? Smooth.

Seems pretty silly to me, is this supposed to make Office able to compete with iWork?

I don't love iWork's word processing, but then again, I'm launching Word less and less as the days go by. It just feels wrong- like opening a Classic app.

I have to wonder what the point is, given that MacBU's bread and butter is supposedly interop with Office/Windows users.

This smacks of “crap, Apple have released iWork 08 and it looks *cool*, we need to pretend Office can be too!”.