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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 Mac BU gets a new GM

by Steven Sande (Nov 1st, 2008)

The Macintosh Business Unit of Microsoft, that company we love to hate, has announced that a new General Manager has taken over the group. Craig Eisler, the former Mac BU big cheese, has moved onwards and upwards into the bowels of the Redmond-based software giant in a position with the ...

Remote Desktop Connection Client for Mac 2.0 (Beta)

by Scott McNulty (Jul 31st, 2007)

Microsoft promised us some goodies this week, and they just delivered on that promise. The long awaited (at least by me) Remote Desktop Connection Client for Mac 2.0 (Beta) is now available for download. This is a beta, but in my limited testing it is much, much faster (as one might expect). New in ...

Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac 11.3.2 Update

by Laurie A. Duncan (Dec 19th, 2006)

After being punked on the Office 2004 11.3.1 update, I'm guessing there won't be a mad dash to grab the Office 2004 11.3.2 update, but just in case you have a change of heart -- the Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac 11.3.2 Update claims to offer "several improvements for PowerPoint and Entourage" and is ...

Microsoft says file converter for Office 2007 in the works

by Scott McNulty (Dec 5th, 2006)

According to a post on Mac Mojo, the Mac BU's blog, Microsoft is committed to getting out a free file format converter so that Mac users can open Office 2007 Open XML formatted files with Office 2004 (Laurie posted about the problem earlier today). This converter is expected to be released late ...

Microsoft Mac BU launches blog

by Scott McNulty (Aug 30th, 2006)

I'm a blog booster (shocking, huh?) and I am all for open communications between gigantic faceless corporations and users. Microsoft has taken the lead with having its employees staff official, Microsoft hosted, blogs. It looks like the Mac Business Unit (the Mac BU) of Microsoft has thrown its hat ...

MacBU programmer talks Universal Binaries

by Scott McNulty (Mar 25th, 2006)

It is a good sign that some developers from Adobe and Microsoft are talking about why there aren't Universal versions of their products. I don't think anyone thought that this would be an easy thing to do for complicated applications like Office or Photoshop, but clearly there is demand and the ...