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Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 Service Pack 2

Microsoft has released an update for Microsoft Office for Mac 2011. This update provides the latest fixes to Office for Mac 2011. Additionally, this update contains stability and reliability improvements.

Download – http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2685940

Windows Phone 7 Connector 2.0 for Mac

The next release of Windows Phone 7 Connector landed in the Mac App Store today. The software, which requires OS X 10.6 or later, makes it easy to sync media files from your Mac to your Windows Phone and vice versa. It’s also how Mac users update their Windows Phone software.

Link – http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/windows-phone-7-connector/id415571499?mt=12

Windows Live Mesh for Mac

Windows Live Mesh for Mac brings Live Mesh and the previous version of Windows Live Sync together into one product. With Windows Live Mesh for Mac, you can keep the folders you choose in sync across your computers (Mac and PC) so the files you need are always right there with you.

Link – http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=26811

Windows Phone 7 Connector for Mac

Sync music, photos, videos and podcasts from your existing iTunes and iPhoto libraries to your Windows Phone 7

Windows Phone 7 Connector for Mac is a new software application that enables you to synchronize your favourite music*, videos*, photos* and podcasts* from iTunes and iPhoto.

Link – http://bink.nu/news/windows-phone-7-connector-beta-for-mac-sync-itunes.aspx

Remote Desktop Connection Client for Mac 2.1.1

Remote Desktop Connection Client for Mac 2.1.1 lets you connect from your Macintosh computer to a Windows-based computer and then work with applications and files on the Windows-based computer.

Download – http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=68346e0d-44d3-4065-99bb-b664b27ee1f0

Office for Mac 2011 SP1 released

Microsoft delivered its first Service Pack for its 2011 Mac version of Office on Tuesday.

Office for Mac 2011 Service Pack 1 includes increased stability, security, and some new features to the suite. Microsoft says it will improve Outlook syncing support and include some performance enhancements. The update also enables calendar syncing between Outlook for Mac and Apple’s Sync Services. The feature allows users to Sync data between Outlook’s Calendar and devices such as the iPhone or iPad.

Link – http://www.microsoft.com/mac/downloads?pid=Mactopia_Office2011&fid=EF1E612F-D8E3-4628-9FE4-AD136F0DEBD3#viewer

Microsoft unveils try-before-buy Mac Office

Four months after it debuted Office for Mac 2011, Microsoft on Tuesday launched the first free trial of the application suite.

The trial version of Office for Mac Home and Business 2011 includes fully-functional versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook, the suite’s word processor, spreadsheet, presentation manager and e-mail client.

Link – http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/try/?CTT=3

The new Messenger for Mac 8 with Video Chat

Today Messenger for Mac 8 came out of beta! It will be available (soon) as part of the Office for Mac 2011 suite, and is also available as a free standalone download.

Link – http://windowsteamblog.com/windows_live/b/windowslive/archive/2010/10/25/the-new-messenger-for-mac-8-with-video-chat-is-now-out-of-beta.aspx

Office for Mac 2011 hits RTM

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 in all of our team locations (Redmond, Microsoft Silicon Valley, Beijing, Dublin and Tokyo), raising a glass to Office 2011!

Link – http://blog.officeformac.com/office-for-mac-2011-hits-rtm/

Microsoft hits back at Apple with PC vs Mac page

Microsoft has put up a PC vs Mac page, with the software giant defending Windows PCs against Apple’s increasingly popular computers.

With Apple’s computer sales buoyant, Microsoft appears to have decided to throw down the gauntlet to its rival, despite the huge success of Windows 7.

A ‘Deciding between a PC and a Mac?’ page is already being widely discussed on social networking sites, with Microsoft not pulling its punches.

Link – http://www.techradar.com/news/computing/pc/microsoft-hits-back-at-apple-with-pc-vs-mac-page-708885

Microsoft to launch Office 2011 for Mac in October

Microsoft is launching Office for Mac 2011 in October in three flavors, company officials said on August 2.

The three SKUs, or versions — Office for Mac Home & Student 2011, Office for Mac Home & Business 2011 and Office for Mac Academic 2011 — will be available at retail starting in late October. (The Academic version, for students and faculty, will be available via authorized academic stores.)

Link – http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsoft-to-launch-office-2011-for-mac-in-october/6966

R2’s Nifty New DHCP MAC Address Filtering Tool

When I first saw that Windows NT Server 3.5 included something called a "DHCP server" that freed me from having to hand-configure static IP addresses on every one of my IP-connected computers, I was delighted, and I’ve used Microsoft’s DHCP in my networks ever since.  Now, between NT 3.5 and now, DHCP hasn’t really changed all that much…. unless you’re talking about the DHCP server service shipped with Windows Server 2008 R2.

The new stuff in R2 isn’t earth-shattering, but it is convenient, and provides a sort of "poor man’s quarantine" by letting you control which machines your DHCP server should give IP addresses to, and lets you do it in a fairly convenient way.  In this article, I’ll introduce you to R2’s DHCP MAC address filtering feature and how to make the most of it.

Link – http://www.minasi.com/newsletters/nws0911.htm

Outlook (finally) coming to the Mac

When Microsoft releases its next version of Office for Mac late next year, it will include a capability that will finally bring it into parity with its Windows counterpart: Outlook for Mac.

This new application will not be merely an "Outlookized" version of Office for Mac 2008’s Entourage – Outlook’s weaker sister – but be fully new app, written from the ground up in Cocoa, Mac OS X’s collection of frameworks, APIs, and runtimes.

Speaking to reporters today from his offices in Redmond, Eric Wilfred, general manager of Microsoft’s Macintosh Business Unit (MacBU), also said that the new Outlook for Mac will have a new database. "We are refreshing not just the front end, but the guts of the application," Wilfred said.

Link – http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/08/13/outlook_for_mac/