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Microsoft Office 2011 14.2.1 update released

Let’s try this again. On Tuesday, Microsoft released its Microsoft Office 2011 14.2.1 update. The update, a 110 megabyte download, adds the following fixes and features: – Document Connection support for SkyDrive documents is improved. This update enables users to view and access documents that are located in the root level of a SkyDrive folder. […]

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Carbon Copy Cloner updated to 3.4.5

Late Tuesday, Carbon Copy Cloner, the shareware favorite for drive cloning operations by Mike Bombich, reached version 3.4.5. The new version, a 6.5 megabyte download, adds the following fixes and changes: – Fixed a minor timing issue that would prevent CCC from finishing the submission of an email notification when a scheduled task was configured […]

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Microsoft pulls Office 2011 Service Pack 2 update, offers apology and workaround for Outlook database corruption bug

Well, this is awkward. A little over a week after releasing an update to its Office 2011 for Mac, Microsoft has stopped pushing out auto-updates for Service Pack 2 over a flaw that corrupts identity databases in the company’s Outlook mail client. The announcement was made on Friday through the company’s Office blog, and notifies […]

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Apple offering MobileMe users free Snow Leopard update to upgrade users to Lion

Offer them what they want and you might get a few new customers. Per Macgasm, Apple is apparently sweetening the deal for MobileMe subscribers who still haven’t made the move to Mac OS X 10.6/10.7 and iCloud. As the last elements of MobileMe terminate on June 30 this year, the company is offering one of […]

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VMWare releases Fusion 4.1.2 update

On Friday, virtualization softare maker VMWare released version 4.1.2 of its Fusion software for the Mac. Similar to other virtualization software packages, VMWare allows users to run alternate operating systems such as Windows and Linux distributions on Intel-based Macs at native speeds. Other features, such as Unity, allow users to run and minimize Windows applications […]