I’m one of those irritating Mac users that has barely any Microsoft software installed. When I want to read a Word document to get the gist (rather than the formatting) I’ll use TextEdit or Pages. Spreadsheets? Boring anyway. PowerPoint goes to Keynote.

So I’m not particularly excited to hear that Microsoft will be shipping Outlook instead of Entourage in its next business version of Office for Mac.

Microsoft has promised that Office will be better integrated with the OS because it’ll be built on Cocoa, with a new database and information rights management system.

True to Microsoft form, Office 2008 for Mac Business Edition will launch on September 15 2009, but do I care? [Read more…]

Originally posted on August 13, 2009 @ 12:11 pm