As was foretold – well, as was promised by Microsoft, anyway – Office for Mac 2011 SP1 is out today, meaning you can now sync your Outlook calendar with your iOS devices. Now you just need actual plans! [Office for Mac via 9to5Mac]
Dear Lifehacker, Earlier today, Microsoft released Office for Mac 2011. I like to keep up with the latest software, but is it worth the upgrade? Signed, Oscillating Over Office More »
From what we’ve heard, Office for Mac 2011 is actually pretty good! If you want to decide for yourself, today’s your chance to pick up a copy of the software suite that includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint and, for the first time, Outlook. It’ll run you $209 for a single Home and Student licence, and $379 for a single Home and Business licence. [Microsoft]
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. More »
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]
Microsoft’s announcement overnight that they’re planning on bringing Outlook to the next version of Office for Mac may not sound like the most exciting piece of news this week, but it is a huge game changer. Forgetting for a second that Microsoft should have done this years ago, banishing that bastard piece of software Entourage to the seventh level of software hell, the move to bring Outlook to the Mac is going to make Apple’s machines even more appealing to enterprise, while at the same time forcing Apple to really bring changes to the way OS X’s Mail, Address Book and iCal interact. More »