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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]
Microsoft MacBU Global MVP Summit 2007
Microsoft Mac developer David Weiss points to the Macintosh Business Unit's upcoming Global MVP Summit 2007, which will be bringing MVPs to Redmond for some Wii gaming and Mac Office feedback. Apparently, MVPs ("Most Valuable Professionals") are non-Microsoft employees that participate in Microsoft's "technical communities" who, in virtue of being super helpful to other users, have been selected to receive this honor(?). These MVPs (who must sign NDAs) then gain access to betas of upcoming Microsoft products and are able to offer suggestions and feedback to the MacBU as well as moderate forums and even man the Microsoft booth at Macworld. MVPs also maintain a variety of helpful information sites like this one for Mac Word and this one for Entourage. There is even information on becoming a MVP, so if you've ever had a burning desire to become a MacBU lackey here's your chance! (I kid, I kid!)[Via David Weiss]
Marble Blast's update is dead, the world cries
XBL Arcade tracked down a status report on Marble Blast Ultra's long awaited update .... and it doesn't look good. In a post over at angry dev, dev man Pat Wilson who works on MBU, reported that the long time announced update will not be coming to XBL as an update. Mr. Wilson (we just had to) stated that they couldn't get on the same page as their publisher and since Microsoft controls the XBLA the update is pretty much dead. We're curious to what the issue is here. Was it the price of the new content, was there a disagreement on whether it should be free or not, or does Microsoft want some cash money? Who out there is a big fan of MBU and wants to hurt someone right now?[Thanks, smakus]
