Mac Mojo: The Office for Mac Team Blog - A New Outlook for Mac Office

Mac Mojo: The Office for Mac Team Blog - A New Outlook for Mac Office http://www.officeformac.com/ms/blog I just finished a conference call announcing some new things from MacBU and wanted to take a minute to share the news on Mojo. We’ve had a lot of success with Office 2008 for Mac and I am proud of the suite and of the work the team continues to put into it. Today’s news is about the future of Office for Mac. First, coming this September we are refreshing the Office 2008 for Mac lineup moving from three to two editions to make it easier for customers to choose the right product. <ol>     <li>Office 2008 for Mac Home & Student</li>     <li>NEW – Office 2008 for Mac Business Edition</li> </ol> The new Business Edition will be available for pre-order on August 18 and on sale beginning September 15. Along with the familiar applications included in the Home & Student version (Word 2008 for Mac, Excel 2008 for Mac, PowerPoint 2008 for Mac and Entourage 2008 for Mac) the new Business Edition includes business focused tools to help manage and grow a business: <ul>     <li>Entourage 2008 for Mac, Web Services Edition: Improves performance, brings new features including task, note and category syncing and support for the latest version of Exchange Server</li>     <li>Microsoft Document Connection for Mac:  Improves access and browsing to documents on SharePoint Products and Technologies and Microsoft Office Live Workspace</li>     <li>Present a professional image: More than 200 business-related templates and  clip art</li>     <li>lynda.com training: Training for beginning to advanced users by lynda.com Inc.</li> </ul> Second, along with the new edition of Office 2008, the team is hard at work on the next version of Office for Mac which will launch in time for the 2010 Holiday season. This next version includes a new application– Outlook for Mac. Outlook for Mac is being built from the ground up as a Mac OS X application using Cocoa. It will have a new database that delivers a reliable, high performance, and integrated experience with Mac OS X.  Users will be able to back-up with Time Machine and search email, calendar and contacts with Spotlight. Additionally, Outlook for Mac and the rest of Office will include Information Rights Management, which helps keep sensitive information for only audiences that you intend. IRM compatibility will make it possible for Mac users to share and receive sensitive information using Microsoft Office tools.  This is just a taste of things to come in Outlook for Mac, we’ll share more over the coming months. Stay tuned! -Eric   Thu, 17 Sep 2009 14:09:44 GMT Web Crossing(r) Unix-v6.4 built Jan 14 2010 18:50:13 (source:1372 2010-01-14 15:39:31 -0800)/Unix-6.4 (http://webcrossing.com/) http://backend.userland.com/rss