Two versions of Microsoft Office 2011 for Mac will be released some time in October, the Home and Student Edition and the Home and Office Edition. Home and Student comes with Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Messenger and is priced at $US119 for a single-user install and $US149 for a family three-pack; Home and Business also includes Outlook and is priced at $US199 for a single install and $US279 for a two computer multi-pack install.
Some of those Office for Mac 2011 features first shown off in February have appeared in a teaser video on YouTube. Word, PowerPoint, Excel and even Outlook (yes! Real Outlook!) all make appearances, as does the redesigned MSN Messenger.
You’ve seen it before: That strange, cutesy “J” that occasionally appears in email and seems contextually like it’s meant to be a smiling emoticon. You may even be sending these little “J”s without even knowing it. Tech blogger Chris Pirillo explains:
That free webmail service we all used before Gmail came along has finally made a move, revealing a new look and integrated features that encourage users to make Hotmail their one-stop home page.
Microsoft has announced how many chickens you’re going to have to cough up for the latest Office 2010. Prices are generally looking better than ever, especially with a new ‘product key card’ option for special digital purchases. Just be careful of the catch…
Microsoft has decided to not show screenshots of the mobile Office suite for Windows Phone 7 – possibly because they’re not final, possibly because they just don’t want to focus on Office as part of their new “consumer” oriented strategy. Either way, here’s what mobile Office looks like. It’s really streamlined and simple.
Google’s shopping spree continues. This time they’ve picked up a company called DocVerse, whose software will eventually allow seamless interoperability between Google Docs and Microsoft Office. That’s right, Microsoft… the call is coming from inside the house.
So the preceding tweet from Office for Mac’s official Twitter account asked for Macworld attendees to swing by the Microsoft booth and say “I love Office for Mac”, but to an uninformed reader, that reads like something else entirely. [ChrisPhin]
An interview with a Microsoft Senior Product Manager opened up the door to rumours of a iPad version of Microsoft’s Office suite.
