Mac Mojo: The Office for Mac Team Blog

Mac Mojo: The Office for Mac Team Blog - Office 2008 Update http://www.officeformac.com/ms/blog It’s been a month now since the worldwide launch of Office 2008 for Mac began at Macworld in January, and the team has been visibly pumped up about having Office 2008 out in the hands of customers and seeing the reactions. Post-launch, we’re hard at work monitoring issues in the wild and combing through customer feedback from Mactopia, newsgroups, etc. As with any software release, our commitment is to continuous improvement, and we are currently finishing up the first Office 2008 update, 12.0.1, which contains fixes for high-priority issues we’ve identified. We’re targeting a March 11th, 2008 release date, which will automatically be available via Microsoft Auto Update, and as a download from Mactopia at: <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/mac/downloads.mspx">http://www.microsoft.com/mac/downloads.mspx</a>. The team is mobilized to get Office 2008 updates out as soon as possible; as a result we are pushing back the release of the final Open XML File Format Converter Update to Office 2004 for Mac. The final converter was previously scheduled for delivery 6-8 weeks after U.S. availability of Office 2008; instead, the final converter will be available to customers by late June 2008 as a download from Mactopia and also via Microsoft AutoUpdate. Of course, the stand-alone beta file format converter is still available for download <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/mac/downloads.mspx?pid=Mactopia_Office2004&fid=AB66B5BF-37C3-41BB-945E-784782FC582C#viewer">here</a>. Quick updates on other upcoming releases: •    Availability of Office 2008 Volume Licensing – English, French, and Japanese versions became available on February 1st; all other supported languages will be available on March 1st. •    Remote Desktop Connection for Mac version 2.0 – the final release is scheduled for spring. The public beta version is available for download <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/mac/downloads.mspx?fid=1d56fcd1-6001-4ae9-b7b6-2c2c631a7245#viewer">here</a>. •    Messenger for Mac 7.0 (discussed in <a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/macmojo/archive/2007/11/12/a-chat-about-messenger.aspx">this post</a>) – As mentioned previously, Messenger for Mac 7.0 is currently in beta with corporate customers; we expect to roll out the next version to everyone later this year. I’d like to thank the many customers who have contacted us with suggestions and requests on the new product. As a reminder, there are two very simple ways to provide your feedback: •    When working in Office, you can use the “Send Feedback” option under the Help menu in all of the Office applications to contact us. •    Visit the Mactopia Product Feedback link here: <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/mac/suggestions.mspx">http://www.microsoft.com/mac/suggestions.mspx</a> We welcome comments and reports on your Office 2008 for Mac experience, especially through those channels listed above where they are the most visible and actionable for the product teams. Your input helps us to continually improve Mac Office. Thu, 12 Jun 2008 23:06:02 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