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Office 2011 to ship October 26
That's right -- Office for Mac 2011 now has an on-sale date; it's October 26th, which is just about a month away. The suite will be the first Mac OS X version that offers Outlook rather than Entourage, and it will come in a few different flavors. Home and Student 2011 will be available for US$119 (or $149 for a three-copy family pack), and it will come with Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and Messenger. Home and Business 2011 will have the whole enchilada and will sell for $199 (or $279 for a two-install pack). The announcement came with the cheery video above, which runs through a few new features of the software and shows you a few of the kind folks running the Mac Business Unit. A couple of us have been using Office for Mac 2011, and we'll have some impressions for you later on. Stay tuned -- if you've been waiting for a brand new Office for Mac, the wait is almost over. [via Mashable and Nadyne Richmond]
A tour of Microsoft's Mac labs
Here's something interesting I haven't seen before. Blogger David Weiss works at Microsoft's Mac Business Unit (MacBU), and offers a great tour of the MacBU's Mac labs on his blog. There's a lot to see here, from rooms full of vintage Macs, all sorts of printers you can image up and running (test, test, test!) to a room of 150 Mac minis! He writes:"Up until a few months ago we had every significant hardware revision Apple has ever released since the dawn of time."Woah. Check it out, it's a great tour.Thanks to everyone who sent this in.
