Thank you to all those that were able to stop by and visit the Mac Office Loves You Booth at Macworld 2010. We had a tremendous time meeting many of you, sharing exciting news about the latest and greatest, and collecting your feedback to help make Mac Office a better product. In addition to our booth presence, Office for Mac also participated in two presentations including the Office 2008 for Business and Office for 2008 for Education sessions, as well as producing two Macworld daily video recaps. You can also catch all of our show content including videos, pictures, tweets, etc. @ www.macofficelovesyou.com.
Our Macbook Pro contest came to an end yesterday, so we'll soon announce winners. Keep your fingers crossed if you entered. You can still follow us on Twitter to hear what's happening at the MacBU.
Once again, thank you to all that were able to experience Macworld 2010 with us, and good luck!
Awesome stuff...and lookin forward to office 2011, but wheres the updates on messenger? Nothing previewed at Macworld?
afh100
Mar 24, 2010
3:06pm
Powerpoint Mac
I truly expect this to be moderated, and with that in mind I am going to be as controlled as possible, however...
Having just installed Office:Mac (2008) and run it on a high end Mac Pro, I can honestly say, does nothing in quality control ever EVER improve at MS? PowerPoint is pitiful. Crashes when you "save as...", takes over 70 seconds to save a file to a windows network over gigabit ethernet. The font handling is about as mature as MS products from 1999. Endless formatting battles where text changes size without asking you. Simply put for all the undeniable upgrades to the look and feel, when is the MS office team actually going to do a proper job of usability design?? This program has seemingly had no bug fixes for over a year, and is a total liability to use (and let's face it, if you're using Powerpoint you're probably doing something dull but importantly corporate, so stressful too).
I would never, ever have installed this if I didn't have to. Entourage is about usable (though I'm having to rebuild the mail database every 2 weeks). But PowerPoint - just pitiful. Does anyone on the MacOffice team actually use it I wonder? Or are you all wisely on Keynote?
Yours at the limits of sanity using this unshippable product.
Paul Naassan
Mar 11, 2010
11:11pm
Where art thou!
liars liars, pants on fire (s)
So here we are, March 2010, messenger messenger come out to play.
or not?
Those darn codes we've been hearing about since 2007, 3 years to implement A/V.
yeah these things do take time. they do. oh well. maybe my kid will use a messenger that's user friendly.
just by the way, A/V is a very important feature, but offline messages and speed in signing in and it shouldnt take 5 hours before someone gets blocked. dont know. it's not about the A/V anymore, it's about a messenger that looks and feels more like msn for windows 9, not msn for windows 1.
that's all i'm saying.
but i love you anyway.
DavidRRoy
Mar 16, 2010
10:48am
I must add
I must add that we are indeed mid March with the promised Messanger beta for March perhaps you should have put it down as April if your planning to release it in the last week of March.
Maybe even just give us some screen shots, and please less of the secrecy lets just see some nice big screenshots of the new Office, Messanger, and anything else coming up i'ld love to see what the new Outlook is going to look like.
you, sharing exciting news about the latest and greatest, and collecting your feedback to help make Mac Office a better product. In addition to our booth presence, Office for Mac also participated in two presentations including the Office 2008 for Business and Office for 2008 for Education sessions, as well as producing two 
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alibob150
Mar 04, 2010
11:17pm
Re: We Loved Macworld 2010!
afh100
Mar 24, 2010
3:06pm
Powerpoint Mac
Having just installed Office:Mac (2008) and run it on a high end Mac Pro, I can honestly say, does nothing in quality control ever EVER improve at MS? PowerPoint is pitiful. Crashes when you "save as...", takes over 70 seconds to save a file to a windows network over gigabit ethernet. The font handling is about as mature as MS products from 1999. Endless formatting battles where text changes size without asking you. Simply put for all the undeniable upgrades to the look and feel, when is the MS office team actually going to do a proper job of usability design?? This program has seemingly had no bug fixes for over a year, and is a total liability to use (and let's face it, if you're using Powerpoint you're probably doing something dull but importantly corporate, so stressful too).
I would never, ever have installed this if I didn't have to. Entourage is about usable (though I'm having to rebuild the mail database every 2 weeks). But PowerPoint - just pitiful. Does anyone on the MacOffice team actually use it I wonder? Or are you all wisely on Keynote?
Yours at the limits of sanity using this unshippable product.
Paul Naassan
Mar 11, 2010
11:11pm
Where art thou!
So here we are, March 2010, messenger messenger come out to play.
or not?
Those darn codes we've been hearing about since 2007, 3 years to implement A/V.
yeah these things do take time. they do. oh well. maybe my kid will use a messenger that's user friendly.
just by the way, A/V is a very important feature, but offline messages and speed in signing in and it shouldnt take 5 hours before someone gets blocked. dont know. it's not about the A/V anymore, it's about a messenger that looks and feels more like msn for windows 9, not msn for windows 1.
that's all i'm saying.
but i love you anyway.
DavidRRoy
Mar 16, 2010
10:48am
I must add
Maybe even just give us some screen shots, and please less of the secrecy lets just see some nice big screenshots of the new Office, Messanger, and anything else coming up i'ld love to see what the new Outlook is going to look like.