Microsoft on Tuesday released Service Pack 1 for Office 2008 for Mac, the first major update to what the company called its most successful Mac Office launch in 19 years (in terms of sales volume).
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- Today Microsoft is hooking up all Office for Mac 2008 users with Service Pack 1. The company is also announcing the return of Visual Basic for Applications—in the next version, though, so no.
Interestingly enough Microsoft has released Office 2008 Service Pack 1 today for Macs. What’s interesting about that? Well, it is one of the fastest turnarounds for a Service Pack that I’ve ever seen. The suite of applications was just released back in January 2008, and here we are four months later with a Service Pack. Office 2007 for Windows didn’t see it’s first Service Pack for nearly a year after the consumer launch.
The press release issued by Microsoft said that the “velocity of sales for Office 2008 is nearly three times what [they] saw after the launch of Office 2004.” To help celebrate they decided to give us a glimpse of what the future holds for the next version of Mac Office. Drumroll please… VBA support! That’s right, but you’ll likely be waiting a few years before we see a new Mac Office pop out of the Microsoft bat cave.
What’s really interesting is the timing of the VBA announcement. It was just last week that OpenOffice.org 3.0 Beta was released with some early stages of VBA support, and it’s almost as if Microsoft was afraid that users might start looking to OpenOffice.org to pick up where Microsoft left off. That might not be the case, but that was the first thing that popped into my mind.
At any rate Office 2008 SP1 is out, and ready for you to download. The list of features and improvements can be found below, but the 180MB download doesn’t bring anything too earth shattering.
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Microsoft Office Excel
- Compatibility. Improved compatibility with files exchanged between Excel 2008 for Mac and Excel 2003 and Excel 2007 for Windows
- Custom Error Bars. Restored formatting option on the Error Bars panel for data series
- Printing. More reliable printing for elements on Excel 2008 workbooks
Microsoft Entourage
- Calendar. Significant enhancements to improve calendar view and all-day reminders with reoccurrence
- Exchange Server support. Overall improvement to synchronization support, including removing attachments from Exchange Server messages and synchronizing to the server, as well as support for editing the contents of Exchange Server messages via AppleScript and synchronizing the changes to the server
- E-mail images. Ability to send and view images in Entourage from third-party tools
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Microsoft Office Word
- Printing. Improved accuracy when orienting tables with cell shading
- Document map. Improved reliability and responsiveness to select items
- Notebook layout. Updated formatting, recording status and a variety of display options
Microsoft Office PowerPoint
- Printing. Improvements to eliminate crashing when printing documents to high-dpi printers and increased overall printing speed by 10 times on some large presentations
- Mobile viewing. Ability to view Mac .PPTX files on Windows Mobile phones
- AppleScript. Ability to use the PowerPoint selection object in AppleScript to implement custom scripts that operate on the current selection in PowerPoint
Office for Mac 2011
Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 is all set to be released on October 26 2010. Microsoft was busy releasing its products like windows 7, Office 2010, Windows Live Essentials suite that includes windows live messenger 2011, etc. in the last couple of years. Now it is time for the much awaited Microsoft office suite of applications for Mac.
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Office for Mac 2011 is a great improvement over its predecessor Office for Mac 2008. Microsoft Office had always been the world’s most popular and widely used Office suite of applications.However, Mac users weren’t lucky as Microsoft never seemed to do justice for them. This despite the fact that Microsoft Office for Mac was introduced for Macintosh in 1989, even before it was released for Windows!
However, it looks like Microsoft has once again taken the Mac users seriously and like every other mac lover, we hope that microsoft releases a good suite of office applications bundled as Office for Mac 2011.
Finally, it looks like there will be microsoft Outlook for Mac, which will support Microsoft Information Right’s management and will also let you import PST files. All office for Mac 2011 applications will have an interface that is tailored for Mac and like in office 2007 and office 2010, there will be a ribbon in the top menu bar to access everything.
There will also be improvements in the way users can collaborate on office documents with everywhere access, full co-authoring and new connections to Microsoft services such as the Office Web Apps, SharePoint and SkyDrive.
Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 looks promising and a worthy upgrade over office 2008 for Mac.Get read to download office for mac 2011!