Office For Mac

In keeping with all of the Office 2011 excitement, we wanted to share a little background on our new “Id3a01ogy” web series that kicked off earlier this week. Here’s what the man behind the ideas, Dennis Liu, had to say…

Id3a01ogy is a short documentary series about these people. The thinkers. The iconoclasts. The dreamers. The leaders. The idea of the series, is to have a discussion about ideas. Our participants tell us how what an idea is. How to come by an idea? How you know you have one?

A common thread quickly tied the films together among our respondents– an idea is nothing without successful execution. Tools to help ideas grow, are essential. And, as a diehard Mac user, I know that users will find this new version of Office 2011 for Mac helpful to get their ideas written down, presented and shared.

As a film director, my livelihood depends on the quality, speed, and originality of my ideas.  I have to think. A lot. There are scores of people who are always clawing for my job, and I have to constantly prove my ideas can break through the clutter over anyone else’s.

Directing is not just pointing around, looking like a boss. Actors, cinematographers, art directors – are all looking to a director for more ideas to help generate their own. It is an intensely competitive field, and if you don’t have the ideas and answers, someone out there will.

Every edge is critical for me. For me, I can appreciate this Office for Mac’s 2011 more communal approach to word processing with co-authoring.  I use Office for Mac to write my treatment drafts and Excel to read my producers’ budgets. With my team, I can share ideas back and forth instantly, to figure out a way to stay on budget and improve scripts.

But even with all these advancements, these new brushes and scalpels in our arsenal, it is the originality of the work that we produce, which will ultimately yield the most fruitful results. The quality of our work must still stand on its own merits, no matter what program or platform it is created. This is the only way to stay relevant, in our re-invented world where the internet as the ultimate equalizer, as it continually ignores the mediocre, and warmly embraces the radical and unique.

Today you can officially get your copy of Office for Mac 2011! I couldn’t be more proud of the Office for Mac team and of the product we’ve created. Office 2011 continues our team’s mission to connect Mac users to their counterparts who use Windows. Office enables users across platforms to work anywhere, anytime – [...]

We’ve seen questions come up regarding syncing with Outlook on Twitter and Facebook and wanted to take a minute to answer them here and make sure you have everything you need to know prior to the launch of Office for Mac 2011 which is next Tuesday, Oct. 26. For customers not using Exchange accounts, we [...]

We’ve recently announced that Office for Mac 2011 is ready for pre-orders online and will soon be available at a store near you on October 26. We’re really excited to finally get the product in our users’ hands, our latest version packs plenty of new features and significant speed improvements that will help you be [...]

We are excited to announce that starting on October 26 you can get your own copy of Office for Mac 2011! And starting today preorders can be placed at Amazon.com. One of the most visually impactful features in the new suite also is called Dynamic Reorder, it gives you the ability to interactively re-order all [...]

In March we released a beta version of Messenger for Mac 8 that supported video calls with other Windows Live users. Today, I would like to announce another major change for Messenger users: a new partner application called Communicator for Mac. Messenger 5, 6, and 7 included support for both Windows Live users and for [...]

I love to find the right picture to bring an idea to life, or sometimes the picture itself inspires a new direction to go in. This year I got my hands on my first digital SLR camera and started making more frequent trips to popular photo sharing services and digital libraries – all in search [...]

In conjunction with the upcoming release of Office:Mac 2011, our user experience team is conducting several research studies beginning in late September about the new applications to track their usage and usability over time.  While these studies won’t impact features to be included in Office:Mac 2011, they will help us determine how well we met [...]

Houston, we have RTM! It’s a big Friday in MacBU as we are celebrating the “Release to Manufacturing” of Office for Mac 2011. This means we’ve signed off on final testing and the product is officially getting sent on its way to production and to customers. We’ll be cranking the Microsoft ship siren and celebrating [...]

Check out the third Office for Mac 2011 Behind-the-scenes video highlighting new co-authoring features, added integration with Office Web apps, the improved Scheduling Assistant found in Outlook for Mac, and the new Broadcast Slideshow feature in PowerPoint for Mac!