Tag: Office
Microsoft contemplating an appearance in the Mac App Store
First, I’d like to say that I personally live in a world where the “best” alternative makes an appearance in my workflow. I’m so far...
Microsoft now letting users download a trial of Office for Mac 2011
I’ve spent some time over the last week troubleshooting some Office for Mac problems. Most of the time, the users are running older versions. When...
Microsoft’s testing the iOS waters with OneNote
Some serious crow must have been eaten at the last Microsoft executive meeting: Microsoft has released an iOS app based on an Office application. It’s...
Powerpoint for Mac 2011: Play audio across slides
I was asked a question via email by a Macgasm reader on how to play an audio clip across a set of slides within PowerPoint...
Apple buys up former HP campus for $300 millionish
Word is out: Apple’s takeover of the old HP campus is complete. HP, all your base are belong to Apple. Apple Inc. has allegedly ponied...
Office for Mac 2011: PowerPoint
As with Excel, the number of slideshow and presentation applications are few. On the Mac side, there are basically only two: PowerPoint and Keynote. As...
Office For Mac 2011: Excel
Just like I stated in my Word for Mac 2011 review, I don’t use Office for Mac that much, and I don’t like using it...
Office for Mac 2011: Outlook
One of my biggest gripes with all previous versions of Office for Mac is that Outlook was not included. Sure, there was Entourage, but seriously,...
Microsoft releases Office:Mac 2011
The first thing people switching to Macs look for these days is Office for the Mac. While Apple has an excellent office suite of their...
Office 2010 to get Outlook and some new price points.
If there’s on thing that sucks worse than Mail.app, it’s Entourage. Apparently Microsoft knows it too, so they’re now planning on bringing the corporate mail...
Canada finally gets real television shows in iTunes.
From the “This might be old news, but it’s new to me”department–it looks like the Canadian iTunes store might have finally given us lowly Canadians...
Dish me some Bean!
When it comes to applications for the Mac, I just can’t get enough of them. But when they are applications that I might actually use,...
Office 2008 for Mac 12.0.1 Update
Props to Vincent Ferrari for the heads up. Apparently Microsoft has released an update to Office 2008 that fixes a whole slew of problems. Some...
From iLife 08 to Office 2007
As I said in my introductory post, I live (proudly) as a Mac user in a Microsoft OS build and support center. And try as...
Mailplane Is A Decent App
About three months ago I installed the Mailplane application. I had an invite sent to me by a friend because it was still in its...
Office 2008: Mac edition is pre ordering.
Sometimes you have absolutely no choice in the matter, and sometimes you just have to bite the bullet and put software on your mac that...