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Microsoft planning significant Outlook for Mac overhaul with focus on user interface, syncing improvements

In addition to Microsoft overhauling its iOS apps and essentially consolidating them into one centralized Office app, it looks like the company is planning some hefty changes to Outlook for Mac over the next few weeks. It’s been reported that the new version of Outlook will feature significant performance improvements as well as enhancements to […]

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Microsoft VP highlights Windows 8 interface changes, emphasizes upcoming Ribbon features

If Mac OS X 10.7 (“Lion”) was starting to look like Windows 7 (or vice versa), this might be reassuring. Per a blog entry by Steven Sinofsky, Microsoft’s president of its Windows Division, indicates that one key element of Windows 8 will take the new release in a very different direction than Apple’s outline for […]

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Microsoft retracts CEO Steve Ballmer’s comments as to Windows 8 arriving in 2012, cites “misstatement”

Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer has always possessed a multitude of skills. Knowing when to keep his mouth shut has not always been one of them. Per InfoWorld, a Microsoft spokesperson has clarified Ballmer’s comments as to Windows 8 arriving in 2012 as “a misstatement.” At a developer forum in Tokyo, Japan on Monday, Ballmer used the […]

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Office for Mac 2011 Service Pack 1 expected next week

You’ve had your mitts on Office for Mac 2011 and gotten to know the suite inside and out. As of next week, it might be going through some changes. Per Microsoft’s Office for Mac blog, the company is set to release Service Pack 1 for Office for Mac 2011 next week, bringing the usual fixes, […]