Despite being released more than a year ago, Microsoft’s Office: Mac 2008 now comes in a trial version. If you don’t have a copy of the near-ubiquitous office suite on your Mac, you can now download a full and complete trial copy to play around with. If you decide to keep it, no need to visit a store — you can purchase a license key over the Internet and keep using Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and Entourage without interruption.
Office Mac team member Marshall Nam announced the new trial offer in a post to the Mac Mojo blog on Microsoft’s Mactopia site yesterday morning. Touting many of Office 2008’s new features like SmartArt graphics and Word’s Publish view, Nam explains that the trial includes the latest version of the full office suite, with all the “improvements and enhancements” made in the last few updates.
This is a welcome move for new Mac users looking to check out the competition. Apple has included a free, 30-day trial of its iWork suite on new Macs for a while now, so Microsoft might be trying to counter Cupertino. Sales might be down, or Microsoft might be seeing increased competition from iWork on Google’s online office suite. Nam does state that the Office Mac team has been “heads-down working on the next version” of the software, so perhaps another major version is coming — for desktop Mac OS X, or maybe for the iPhone.
Either way, the new trial is a great way to see if Office 2008is something you want to purchase. The Office trial is available for download here.
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Go Apple, Young Man
Macs are making their way into the enterprise, and eWEEK Labs' Cameron Sturdevant wants to stay one step ahead of them by "going Apple." A lifelong Microsoft/PC user, Sturdevant is making the switch to be able to articulate the real benefits, drawbacks and costs of integrating the Apple/Mac platform into your organization. His journey begins here.
News apps for the iPhone span the political spectrum
Filed under: iPhone, App Store
In the right corner, weighing in at four sections, it's the Wall Street Journal! Yes, the official newspaper of American business (whatever's left of it) has an iPhone app, and according to Silicon Alley Insider it's pretty good; the app lets you cache content for offline reading (similar to the NYT app), and offers audio and video content from the paper, along with stories and rich media from sister sites like Uncle Walt's hangout AllThingsD.
Most notably, using the iPhone version of the WSJ -- which is free -- you can read most or all the content from the daily paper... which, via the WSJ.com website, is not free (most full stories require a subscription). There's no way to know how long this workaround will be in place, but for now it's a great way to get access to the paper's stories.
And, in the opposite corner, weighing in at one home page and sporting a killer left hook, it's the Huffington Post! The HuffPo iPhone app has been in soft-launch mode for the past month and was just updated to version 1.1, quashing bugs and improving performance. It's not as polished as some of the other SSAs yet, but it gets the job done. The app is free.
If you have a preferred single-site app for news, let us know below.
TUAWNews apps for the iPhone span the political spectrum originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Thu, 16 Apr 2009 00:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
SlingPlayer for iPhone may be facing opposition from AT&T
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Microsoft releases free Office Mac trial version
Despite being released more than a year ago, Microsoft’s Office: Mac 2008 now comes in a trial version. If you don’t have a copy of the near-ubiquitous office suite on your Mac, you can now download a full and complete trial copy to play around with. If you decide to keep it, no need to visit a store — you can purchase a license key over the Internet and keep using Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and Entourage without interruption.
Office Mac team member Marshall Nam announced the new trial offer in a post to the Mac Mojo blog on Microsoft’s Mactopia site yesterday morning. Touting many of Office 2008’s new features like SmartArt graphics and Word’s Publish view, Nam explains that the trial includes the latest version of the full office suite, with all the “improvements and enhancements” made in the last few updates.
This is a welcome move for new Mac users looking to check out the competition. Apple has included a free, 30-day trial of its iWork suite on new Macs for a while now, so Microsoft might be trying to counter Cupertino. Sales might be down, or Microsoft might be seeing increased competition from iWork on Google’s online office suite. Nam does state that the Office Mac team has been “heads-down working on the next version” of the software, so perhaps another major version is coming — for desktop Mac OS X, or maybe for the iPhone.
Either way, the new trial is a great way to see if Office 2008is something you want to purchase. The Office trial is available for download here.
Rumor: Upcoming iPhone parts list published
Once again, the folks at DigiTimes have leaked information about a forthcoming Apple product. Citing "Industry sources in Taiwan,"
Go Apple, Young Man
Macs are making their way into the enterprise, and eWEEK Labs' Cameron Sturdevant wants to stay one step ahead of them by "going Apple." A lifelong Microsoft/PC user, Sturdevant is making the switch to be able to articulate the real benefits, drawbacks and costs of integrating the Apple/Mac platform into your organization. His journey begins here.
News apps for the iPhone span the political spectrum
Filed under: iPhone, App Store
In the right corner, weighing in at four sections, it's the Wall Street Journal! Yes, the official newspaper of American business (whatever's left of it) has an iPhone app, and according to Silicon Alley Insider it's pretty good; the app lets you cache content for offline reading (similar to the NYT app), and offers audio and video content from the paper, along with stories and rich media from sister sites like Uncle Walt's hangout AllThingsD.
Most notably, using the iPhone version of the WSJ -- which is free -- you can read most or all the content from the daily paper... which, via the WSJ.com website, is not free (most full stories require a subscription). There's no way to know how long this workaround will be in place, but for now it's a great way to get access to the paper's stories.
And, in the opposite corner, weighing in at one home page and sporting a killer left hook, it's the Huffington Post! The HuffPo iPhone app has been in soft-launch mode for the past month and was just updated to version 1.1, quashing bugs and improving performance. It's not as polished as some of the other SSAs yet, but it gets the job done. The app is free.
If you have a preferred single-site app for news, let us know below.
TUAWNews apps for the iPhone span the political spectrum originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Thu, 16 Apr 2009 00:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
SlingPlayer for iPhone may be facing opposition from AT&T
An apparent delay in the approval of SlingPlayer's release on the App Store, coupled with unconfirmed reports that AT&T isn't keen on seeing the device make its way to the iPhone, has led to speculation that the wireless carrier is seeking to have the software rejected in its current form.
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