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Microsoft Office 2008, part 2: Entourage

Posted on 18 January 2008 in 3rd Party Software, Address Book, iSync & iCal, Apple Mail, Microsoft | 5 Comments »

While Apple Mail loads in a glimpse of an eye, Entourage feels the need to show you off it’s brand new splash screens for a couple of seconds…

Entourage 2008 Splash
Well, after a first look at Entourage, I told myself “why is it so complicated?”, look at all those buttons, columns, text, icons.. It’s for me impossible to talk about Entourage without comparing it to Apple Mail…
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Microsoft Office 2008, part 1: Excel

Posted on 18 January 2008 in 3rd Party Software, Microsoft | No Comments »

Excel 2008

New icons for the whole package. Office 2008 has the same components than 2004: Word, Excel, Powerpoint and Entourage.
The applications need more time than the previous version of Office to start on PPC based computers, while it runs faster than Office 2004 on Intel based Macintoshs, but once they are launched, you’ll be amazed.
Let’s take a closer look to Excel to start.
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Microsoft Office 2004 Updated to 11.3.9

Posted on 7 November 2007 in Microsoft | No Comments »

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Office 2004 Update (11.3.8)

Posted on 13 October 2007 in Microsoft | No Comments »

Maybe is this the last Office update before Office 2008 shipping.

This update fixes a vulnerability in Word 2004: This update fixes a vulnerability in Word 2004 that an attacker can use to overwrite the contents of your computer’s memory with malicious code. For more information about this update, see the Microsoft Knowledge Base article (KB941809)

Office 2008 revealed on Apple Expo 2007

Posted on 29 September 2007 in Microsoft | No Comments »

Apple Expo 2007

As always, the Apple Expo is taking place at Paris these days in Hall 5 of the Parc des Expositions at Porte de Versailles.
And the “key” event was the release of the newest version of Microsoft Office for Mac.
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When MS updates MSN: Big Trouble

Posted on 18 September 2007 in Microsoft | No Comments »

I was chatting with a nice person for the first time on MSN and… :shock:

Surpriiiise

Disconnection… The person went offline…
NB: I sign in to MSN with my dotmac address (@mac.com)

Maria told me to follow the steps, it will probably leads me somewhere, so I clicked on “OK”, I had to “switch” to a @hotmail.com account or to their new @messengeruser.com (that’s an ugly name) account (which is a hotmail account without email support).
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Microsoftish Google

Posted on 3 September 2007 in Humor, Microsoft | 1 Comment »

I feel guilty of the previous upload (iDance) so here’s a funny illustration about how Google would like if it was a M$ product:

MS Google

Zune Phone Revealed

Posted on 3 September 2007 in Humor, Microsoft | 3 Comments »

Finally here’s a sneak peek at the Zune Phone! We hope it will be as successful as the zune itself :razz:

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Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac Delayed

Posted on 3 August 2007 in Microsoft | No Comments »

Microsoft Corp. will delay the release of Office 2008 for Apple Inc.’s Macintosh computers until the middle of January 2008, in order to fix lingering bugs in the software.

The software maker previously said the new suite, which is to include Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) Word, Excel, PowerPoint and the Entourage e-mail program, would go on sale sometime in the second half of 2007.

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