Microsoft updates Office for Mac 2011 with Outlook fixes
Microsoft has made available for download a new minor update to Office for Mac 2011. There's still no updated word on when the next major version will be available.
Microsoft has made available for download a new minor update to Office for Mac 2011. There's still no updated word on when the next major version will be available.
New numbers are out from market-research firm IDC and search-analysis firm comScore on October 13. The findings: Apple is now No. 3 in U.S. PC shipments, and Bing/Yahoo's combined U.S. search share is down slightly compared to last month.
It's been three years since Microsoft last released a public beta of its Windows Live Essentials suite. (So much for more rapid services releases.) But on June 3 ( just after12 midnight EST), the company finally went public with more details on the Windows Live Wave 4 Essentials suite.
The new Office for Mac 2011 release will add a Mac-customized version of Microsoft's Ribbon interface; support for the Personal Folders (.PST) e-mail archiving protocol; and the ability to co-author documents with others using SkyDrive and SharePoint, Microsoft execs said on February 11.
For those attempting to decipher Microsoft's mobile roadmap, there have been codenames galore to decode. Pink. Turtle. Pure. Rouge. Zune Phone. There's one codename that isn't brand new, but is still a key piece of the Microsoft Mobile puzzle: Dorado.
It might seem ironic for a company that has cornered more than 90 percent market share in both desktop operating systems and office suites to be focused on growing its share. But that's how Microsoft officials are identifying their mission for fiscal 2010, which began for Microsoft on July 1.
Microsoft is working on two new versions of its Mac Office suite that include more enterprise-focused features and capabilities.
Microsoft is planning to open the first of its planned retail stores next to existing Apple stores this fall. Kevin Turner, Microsoft's Chief Operating Officer, told partners the news during his Worldwide Partner Conference keynote on July 15.
Microsoft has launched another of its new Windows "Laptop Hunters" ads this weekend. While bloggers and journalists are spending lots of cycles dissecting everything from what the salesclerks are wearing to whether or not the "star" is an actor, the one thing I can't help but notice is how crazy the new commercials are making many in the Apple community.
I've always considered the way those of us in the press get access to information and execs as somewhat of an "insider baseball" kind of topic. But after reading Newsweek tech correspondent Dan Lyons' diatribe about Apple and the "rotten" reporting by the press corps that covers that company, I thought it was worth touching on the slippery slope of "press access."