Coming in 2010: New Mac Office, and finally, Outlook
In a conference call on Thursday, Microsoft's Mac Business Unit said it will add Outlook to its next release of Office for the Macintosh, due in the fourth quarter of 2010.
In a conference call on Thursday, Microsoft's Mac Business Unit said it will add Outlook to its next release of Office for the Macintosh, due in the fourth quarter of 2010.
When Web search company RealNames went out of business, its CEO blamed Microsoft for not renewing a contract. But ZDNet readers pointed out a number of other factors that could have contributed to its demise.
Should Microsoft toss out the millions of lines of code in Windows and start over from scratch? Most readers say: No way! Even those who think Windows needs improvement agree this is not the way to go.
There were surely losers along with the winners at last week's Macworld Expo in San Francisco, but for the moment, I just can't seem to latch onto the negativity required to spot them.The positive side of my brain is ascendant; I'm still filled with the good cheer I felt after walking the expo floor.
According to Microsoft, the Zune platform isn't dead; instead, it's just finding a new hardware home inside a phone. Meanwhile, everyone outside of Redmond and the pathetic few Zune fanboys, know that Zune is dead. Who did this? Apple, perhaps Windows' biggest and most popular independent software developer.
Last month, the Microsoft Macintosh Business Unit announced Office:Mac 2011 and posted some screen shots of its future user interface. I finally got around to looking at them. Sorry to say, the productivity-killing Ribbon introduced with Office 2007 on Windows will make its way to the Mac. Sigh. But the silver lining is that we will get to keep our menus.
Is Apple is putting such a big hurt on Microsoft that Redmond should retarget Apple and pull the plug on its Macintosh Business Unit? That's what some blogsters are saying. What are they smoking?
Both Apple and Microsoft rolled out the beginnings of a cloud computing strategy on Tuesday. Apple introduced a beta of its iWork.
Vista is much better than Mac OS X, right? For the enterprise. And how much will it take to get you to write up that thesis? It's the world of "corporate custom content."
Ten years ago, give a week or so, Apple CEO Steve Jobs introduced QuickTime 3.0 to the National Association of Broadcasters' convention. Behind the scenes in the months before the introduction, Microsoft was playing hardball with hardware and software vendors over its new A/V APIs along with demands to kill the QuickTime competition.