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Office 2008 for Mac Prices Announced

Office 2008 for Mac Microsoft announced details and pricing for Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac. The new suite of office applications will be launched January 15, 2008. There will be three versions of Office for Mac, priced from $149 to $499.

Continue Reading  |  Posted on September 24, 2007  | 

Microsoft: Vista Selling Fast

Microsoft says Vista is being adopted about twice as quickly as XP, with more than 20 million copies of the new operating system sold in the first month. Ballmer and co. warn that some analysts are being “overly aggressive” on revenue projections though. Windows dominates the OS landscape, with about 95% of the global market [...]

Continue Reading  |  Posted on March 26, 2007  | 

Order Your Macbook with Windows XP and OSX

MacMall is now offering MacBook and MacBook Pro bundles with Windows XP and either Parallels or BootCamp pre-installed. Until today MacBook owners had to purchase Windows XP separately and install it themselves. This is the first time consumers will be able to run OSX and Windows on a notebook out of the box. Wonder when [...]

Continue Reading  |  Posted on November 9, 2006  | 

Future Windows Vista Apps For Your Notebook

Here’s a set of videos that preview various Vista applications. The pace is a bit slow, and the Microsoft spokesperson sounds as if he is discovering the wonders of computers for the first time, but they’re still interesting
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Continue Reading  |  Posted on June 1, 2006  | 

Future Microsoft OS’s Have Cute Nicknames

The Window’s OS that will someday replace Vista is code-named “Fiji.” Not sure how Microsoft picks their names, but maybe the company should sequester its software developers on one of Fiji’s remote, unpopulated islands so they can concentrate on getting it out on time. I bet we wouldn’t have to wait 6 years to get [...]

Continue Reading  |  Posted on April 12, 2006  | 

Santa May Deliver Window’s Vista After All

Ok, so maybe everyone jumped the gun last week by saying Vista’s delayed release would hurt notebook computer sales this holiday season. According to the Inquirer and some OEM’s, Microsoft will ship Vista to manufacturers before Christmas, and boxed retail…

Continue Reading  |  Posted on March 31, 2006  |