Office for Mac achieves record sales
Resurgent sales of Mac computers can't be making the folks over at Redmond comfortable. The ironic side effect is that Microsoft's Office 2008 for Mac product is doing extremely well as a result. Microsoft declined to disclose specifics, though it is understood that Mac 2008 is flying off the shelves at three times the rate of its predecessor--the highest in the entire 19-year history of the Mac unit. Sales figures aside, Microsoft also announced that the next full release of Office for Mac will see the re-introduction of Visual Basic scripts, which were pulled for re-working after the original introduction in Office 2004.
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By Glenn Gruber | Posted 11:55am | May 13, 2008
Can you imagine how many more would be sold if Office for Mac 2008 was any good? It is still a poor step-child to Office 2007. In particular, Entourage is still lacking true Exchange & Blackberry integration and many of the basic features that make Outlook superior. In fact, I've had to switch back to using Outlook in Parallels. It's "great" that it's native Mac for Intel code, but criminal that Microsoft delivers such a poor version compared to what they make available for Windows users. It's hard not to presume that delivering sub-standard products for the Mac is part of an intentional strategy to drive business users back to the Windows platform even though Vista's stability and overall performance is so disappointing.