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Share a PowerPoint story, win a custom MacBook Pro

by Michael Rose (Jul 22nd, 2010)

PowerPoint stories are like belly buttons: everybody's got one, but some are more interesting than others. The team at Microsoft's Mac BU wants to hear your exciting, engaging and unique PPT adventures, and they're willing to reward you: the best story might win a major prize. Unlike the "forward ...

Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac 11.5.7 update available

by Dave Caolo (Feb 10th, 2010)

On Tuesday, Microsoft released Office 2004 11.5.7 update for the Mac. This update applies to Office 2004 Standard Edition, Office 2004 Student and Teacher Edition, Office 2004 Professional Edition, Word 2004, Excel 2004, PowerPoint 2004, Entourage 2004. If you're still using this aging version of ...

Microsoft Office 2008 & 2004 updated

by Michael Rose (Nov 12th, 2009)

The productivity suites for Mac from Microsoft, past and present, received a patch this week to resolve security issues and improve performance. While the 2004 version only got the security patches, the 2008 update, to version 12.2.3, boasts the following fixes to all apps in the suite: Security ...

Office 2004 mainstream support extended to January '12

by Dave Caolo (Oct 13th, 2009)

As you probably recall, Microsoft dropped Visual Basic from Office for the Mac with Office 2008. At the time, I was working for a company that had a huge investment in systems that relied on Visual Basic, and that change was a real blow. In fact, we didn't upgrade past Office 2004 just to avoid ...

Microsoft releases Office 2008 Service Pack 2

by Joachim Bean (Jul 20th, 2009)

Today, Microsoft released the Office 2008 Service Pack 2 update. This update brings many improvements and fixes to Office 2008, including improved speed and stability to Word and Excel, new features in PowerPoint, as well as improvements to connecting to SharePoint servers. A brief list of fixes ...

Microsoft releases Office 2008 12.1.9 to patch Word vulnerability

by Michael Rose (Jun 9th, 2009)

There's a new patch in town. Microsoft Office 2008 was updated today to protect against two privately-reported vulnerabilities in the handling of Word files; these security risks could have allowed an attacker to execute arbitrary code on your machine. The update also patches Entourage 2008 to ...

Microsoft Office updated to 12.1.3

by Michael Rose (Oct 15th, 2008)

It got a bit lost in the hustle and bustle of yesterday's announcements, but there was an update released for Microsoft Office 2008; the 12.1.3 update, weighing in at 154 MB, provides the usual slew of security fixes and bug repairs that you know and love. Some crashing bugs have been squashed ...

Microsoft and FrontLine Release Solver for Excel 2008

by Steven Sande (Aug 31st, 2008)

If you've been miffed with Microsoft since Excel 2008 hit the stores due to the removal of Solver from the popular spreadsheet application, it may be time to lighten up. You can now download Solver for Excel 2008 for free from the FrontLine Systems Web site. FrontLine developed the original Solver ...

Microsoft road show for Office 2008 coming to town

by Michael Rose (May 7th, 2008)

Getting Office 2008 loaded and running on one Mac is easy enough if you put your mind to it. Getting it loaded and running on hundreds of Macs, with Entourage data to upgrade and users tearing their hair out over macros that no longer work? Bit more of a challenge, to put it mildly. In the interest ...

Office 2008's first update is for updating the updater

by Michael Rose (Feb 29th, 2008)

Even though the Mac BU is targeting March 11 as the ship date for the first official update to Office 2008 (12.0.1), there's groundwork to be laid and preparations to be made. It's in that spirit of watchful readiness that we note the appearance this afternoon of Microsoft's AutoUpdate 2.1.1 ...

What's the deal with Entourage 2008 and Blackberry sync?

by Michael Rose (Jan 29th, 2008)

If you've got a Blackberry that you plan to sync with Entourage 2008 (other than via Exchange and a Blackberry Enterprise Server, which could give two figs for your client application -- although as a commenter points out, BES still doesn't fully support sent mail or read/unread sync from ...

Office 2008 now available for pre-order

by Michael Rose (Jan 10th, 2008)

Many of you have already gotten the email inviting you to dig deep into your pockets, so let me relay the news to them that hasn't: you can now pre-order Microsoft Office 2008 from Apple and Amazon, with delivery scheduled on January 15th. If you were hoping to install Office 2008 in the first few ...

Office for Mac 2008 released to manufacturing

by Mat Lu (Dec 13th, 2007)

The official word from Microsoft is that Office for Mac 2008 has been released to manufacturing. This means that the code is final and has been sent out to the factories for duplication and packaging ahead of its formal release at Macworld San Francisco on January 15, 2008. If you want a full ...

Microsoft launches Office 2008 sneak peek site

by Scott McNulty (Sep 18th, 2007)

Microsoft is letting out information in dribs and drabs about Microsoft Office: Mac 2008, the long awaited Universal version of the company's productivity suite. Today brings a new website that showcases some of the new functionality found in the Office apps, as well as shows off the new UI (which ...

Mac BU slowly releasing Office 2008 details

by Scott McNulty (Sep 6th, 2007)

Microsoft Office: no matter what your feelings are about Microsoft as an entity there is no denying that their eponymous office suite is an important application for the Mac. Sadly, the newest version, Office 2008 for the Mac, has hit some bumps along the development path and has been delayed until ...