The new Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 which include the new Outlook for Mac—set to replace the Entourage e-mail client—.PST file support, and a number of collaboration tools.

There will also be some major compatibility improvements for users of both Mac and PCs. To the Mac Business Unit, compatibility means more than making sure that documents, spreadsheets, and presentations created on one platform open and render correctly on the other. Noting that roughly three quarters of their Mac users use Windows at least occasionally, Microsoft’s Mac team says it’s also working to make the new Office for the Mac more functionally compatible with the Windows edition.

The great news to me is, that finally, power users will be glad to see the return of the Visual Basic macro language. Visual Basic was dropped from Office 2008 in part because it was too technically difficult to port it to the Mac’s then-new Intel CPUs. Microsoft says it began work on that port as far back as 2008—before the last Mac Office shipped. That work is now complete. And the Mac suite will be using the most up-to-date version of Visual Basic, so it’ll be much more compatible with Office for Windows than the Visual Basic in previous versions of Office for Mac.

Office 2011 for Mac will arrive in time for the 2010 holiday season.

Superb work from Microsoft.

On monday january 13 of 2009, Microsoft decided to make free transfers of your emails (hotmail.com or live.com) to any email application or iPhone.

As a result, no need for httpMail or MacFreePOP anymore.

I’m going to configure my account in the rest of this post.
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This is due to the fact some drivers are missing.

To solve this problem (and some keyboard functions including ejecting a disk), all you have to do is:

1. Boot on Bootcamp
2. Insert Leopard’s DVD once Vista started
3. This will automatically begin installation of the Boot Camp 2.0 drivers

Eight new “Get a Mac” ads are available at Apple.com.
“Get a Mac” ads are getting more aggressive (in the message behind the ads: Apple is clearly trying to take advantage of Vista’s disaster, which is logical) than ever.
Especially the new “Off the Air” (and “Throne”), in which the Mac Genius announces to the PC , they’re helping switchers easily transfer their files from their old PC to their brand new Mac.
Even, retired Bill Gates will probably be back in a $300 million ad campaign featuring Jerry Seinfeld.
The goal is to counter “Get a Mac” ads.

Microsoft is “silent” on the content of these updates..
Office 2008 12.1.2. According to notes provided by the company, “this update contains several improvements to enhance stability and performance.”
Office 2004 11.5.1 does offer a bit more information for users: “several improvements to enhance stability and performance,” the update also includes fixes for vulnerabilities that an attacker can use to overwrite the contents of your computer’s memory with malicious code.

Both updates are available from Microsoft’s Mac Web site.

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Microsoft scheduled the next version of its operating system for January 2010.
According to Steve Ballmer, Windows 7 will be closer from Vista than from XP. There will be many changes of course to reach their clients’ expectations.

Apple will probably be updating Snow Leopard for the 4th or 5th time and be working on the next version of Mac OS X (or 11).