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Microsoft does a stealth price increase of Office for Mac

by Mel Martin (Feb 19th, 2013)

While no one was looking, Microsoft hiked the price of Microsoft Office for Mac. A note in Computerworld also says Microsoft has stopped selling multi-license packages of the suite of office tools. That makes Office for Mac 2011 the same price as Office 2013 for Windows. It comes about as ...

Apple's place in the next generation of gaming

by Mike Schramm (Feb 18th, 2013)

Sony is holding an event this Wednesday in New York, where the company is expected to announce the next version of its popular PlayStation console, essentially kicking off the next generation of video gaming (Nintendo actually did this last year with the launch of its Wii U console, but sales ...

Microsoft patches Office for Mac licensing bug

by Michael Grothaus (Feb 13th, 2013)

Microsoft has released an update to its Office for Mac 2011 software. The Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 14.3.1 Update fixes an issue that could "...cause Office 2011 applications to report a problem with Licensing even though the applications continue to run unaffected," according to the ...

Microsoft CEO talks about Office, won't comment on Office for iPad

by Kelly Hodgkins (Jan 30th, 2013)

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer talked with Businessweek about the recent Office 2013 launch. Most of the interview focused on the desktop version of the productivity suite, but Ballmer dodged a question right at the end about the development of the iPad version of Office. When asked how the iPad ...

Office 2011 update fixes PowerPoint, Outlook issues on Mac

by Mike Wehner (Jan 29th, 2013)

A new update to Microsoft Office 2011 for Mac has rolled live, and it fixes several issues for PowerPoint users, as well as a calendar bug for Outlook. The full change log reads as follows: Meeting invitation times are displayed inaccurately in Outlook for Mac: Fixes an issue that causes ...

Microsoft Office 365 Home Premium brings inexpensive Office power to home Macs (Updated)

by Steven Sande (Jan 29th, 2013)

Like it or hate it, Microsoft Office is the accepted standard office application suite for many companies. Once employees become accustomed to the holy trinity of Word, Excel and PowerPoint, they often decide to use those apps for home use as well. Microsoft today announced global ...

Analyst: For every 20 iPads sold during the holidays, Microsoft sold one Surface tablet

by Mike Wehner (Jan 14th, 2013)

If you've watched any amount of television in the past month or so, you've probably seen plenty of ads for the Microsoft Surface tablet. But while the brightly colored keyboards and techno music of the advertisements might be inseparable from your must-see TV time, the device itself isn't ...

Burglar breaks into Microsoft, steals only Apple products

by Michael Grothaus (Jan 7th, 2013)

A buddy of mine sent me this link from Google+ user Joshua Anderson. It's a clipping from the Palo Alto Daily Post about a break-in that occurred on Microsoft's Mountain View campus early this month. Despite Microsoft's offices being presumably filled with the best MS tech on the planet, the ...

Microsoft acquires home automation startup eyed by Apple

by Randy Nelson (Jan 3rd, 2013)

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Microsoft has beaten Apple to the punch in acquiring id8 Group R2 Studios, a startup specializing in home automation technology. Started by Sling Media founder Blake Krikorian in 2011, the company was being eyed for acquisition by Apple, Microsoft and ...

Gates' children won't own Apple products

by Mike Wehner (Dec 31st, 2012)

Telegraph reports that Melinda Gates, wife of Microsoft's former boss Bill Gates, noted that her kids are still forbidden from owning Apple products in a recent Radio 4 broadcast. It's been known for some time that the Gates children were not allowed to purchase Apple gear such as the iPod, but ...

Your trusty TUAW blogger tries Windows 8

by Mel Martin (Dec 18th, 2012)

I'm pretty much a hard-and-fast Mac guy. I've had Apple products since the Apple II, and bought my first Mac when they came out in 1984, so I have a lot of history with Apple. For a variety of reasons, I need to use a PC laptop to run a variety of astronomical automation programs, and my ...

Where's my convertible Mac?

by Erica Sadun (Dec 14th, 2012)

Here at TUAW, we just received our 5 billionth review request for a new iPad keyboard system. More and more, makeshift solutions attempting to turn iPads into laptops is a "been there done that" for me. Is it "too Microsoft" to ask Apple to come out with a proper convertible notebook/tablet, a ...

Microsoft site references iOS versions of Office, Excel, PowerPoint

by Randy Nelson (Dec 10th, 2012)

Microsoft was quick to deny a report from October that its Office suite is headed to iOS devices, but some information posted to the company's own website indicates otherwise. French Apple news blog Mac4Ever has found references to Office for iPhone, Excel for iPad and PowerPoint for iPad on ...

Apple products top Bing's 2012 top search list

by Mike Wehner (Nov 27th, 2012)

Microsoft has just revealed Bing's top search terms for 2012, and while the company's own products only make a couple of appearances, Apple dominates the list with five of the top 10 keywords. Unsurprisingly, iPhone 5 tops the list, followed closely by iPad in second place. The "iPad 3" pops ...

Daily Update for November 27, 2012

by Steven Sande (Nov 27th, 2012)

It's the TUAW Daily Update, your source for Apple news in a convenient audio format. You'll get all the top Apple stories of the day in three to five minutes for a quick review of what's happening in the Apple world. You can listen to today's Apple stories by clicking the inline player ...