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The MS Office 2008 for Mac scandal continues

Can Microsoft's Macintosh Business Unit expect anything but frustration from its installed base of users? The excuses from the development team are wearing very, very thin. The news today was that the group was able to get its first batch of 1,000 bug...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Microsoft VBA, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office 2004, MacTech, Ticktin, Scripting Languages, Microsoft Office, Desktops, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Office Suites, Software, Hardware, David Morgenstern

Blog posts 2008-05-13

Microsoft's Mac Business Unit: Love the sinner, hate the sin

Unlike many in the Mac community, I don't hate Microsoft with a passion. Okay, maybe just a bit. As I mentioned in a post a while ago, when the giant visage of Bill Gates talked about deals over Steve Jobs' shoulder at the Macworld Expo keynote in 1997, I wasn't...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Corp., Magazine, Mac BU, MacTech, David Morgenstern

Blog posts 2007-09-16

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iPhone Software 3.0: Outrage climbs over missing AT&T support for new iPhone features

To give Apple and AT&T a quick eading on customer dissatisfaction, MacTech, a Mac developer magazine and online resource, on Monday started up a poll on the topic named: Shame on you AT&T. It went live during the keynote! by David Morgenstern

Tags: Apple iPhone, AT&T Corp., Desktops, Hardware, David Morgenstern

Blog posts 2009-06-08

Microsoft: Office '08 sales skyrocket, SP1 released, VBA coming back to Mac

According to CNet Microsoft is selling copies of Office 2008 for Mac at a clip three times higher than the former 2004 version. "The company wouldn't disclose sales numbers, but said the sales are the highest in the 19-year history of the unit. That continues a trend that has been...

Tags: jason D. O'Grady, Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Visual Basic, Desktops, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office, Sales, Microsoft VBA, Hardware, Mac BU, Office Suites, Software

Blog posts 2008-05-13

Parallels, VMware Fusion, Boot Camp battle in real-world tests

A fresh review of Windows virtualization products for Mac OS X machines reports that Parallels was faster in accomplishing a wide number of common business and user tasks with Windows XP, as VMware Fusion moved ahead with Windows Vista. The review was performed by MacTech Labs for...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Performance, Microsoft Windows Vista, VMware Inc., Parallels, Entourage, Microsoft Windows, Virtualization, Apple Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Apple Mac OS, Microsoft Windows XP, Desktops, Operating Systems, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Software, Hardware, Storage, David Morgenstern

Blog posts 2007-12-19

When scripts become programs

In thinking about the general issue of scripting versus programming I decided to look for some examples of early BASIC to see how close that really was to what we would now consider a simple scripting tool -i.e. an interpreted language without a requirement for static typing. To my surprise...

Tags: BASIC, programming

Blog posts 2006-07-21

Is desktop publishing possible without Microsoft Office?

Is desktop publishing possible without Microsoft Office?poor advice" and the only feeling Iget when confronted with Microsoft Word is revulsion "Need I say more.The advice is not worth paying attention to.Can you use a large screw driver as a hammer?I suppose you could, but why bother???LyXOn the LaTeX front, don't...

Tags: Word processors, desktop, Microsoft Word, Lyx, Microsoft Corp., LaTeX, Microsoft Office, desktop publishing

Discussion threads 2005-09-09

Mac dealers taking Apple to court

Three Mac dealers are suing Apple Computer, charging the computer maker with a host of business wrongs ranging from overbilling to poaching customers. A number of Macintosh dealers are suing Apple Computer, charging the computer maker with a host of business wrongs ranging from overbilling to poaching customers to...

Tags: Ian Fried, Hardware, Warning: DOMDocument::loadXML() [domdocument.loadxml]: Empty string supplied as input in /var/opt/include/classes/traxapi.class.php on line 47, Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/opt/include/classes/traxapi.class.php on line 55

News items 2003-02-05

Veteran Mac writer Don Crabb dies

A disease of the pancreas claims well-known chronicler of the Apple and Macintosh communities. He was 44. Veteran Mac journalist Don Crabb died Saturday after being hospitalized since December with a disease of the pancreas. He was 44. Crabb was well-known in the high-tech...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Pancreas, MacWeek, Computer, Productivity, Desktops, Hardware, Jennifer Mack, Technology News

News items 2000-02-28

Tools Plus Pro 5.0 (Mac)

Tools Plus Libraries + Framework lets you easily create professional looking applications and plug-ins. With a single line of code, you can create virtually any user interface element: from a picture button, pop-up menu or list box, to a complex dialog with numerous elements. Once you create something, it works!...

Tags: Menu, Apple Macintosh, Tool, Edit Menu, Productivity

Software downloads 1999-06-03