Despite the fact that Apple has it’s own office suite for the Mac, Microsoft continues to see good sales for Office for Mac. Of course now the difference is to get Apple’s suite, all you need to do is open the Mac App Store and buy the Pages, Keynote and Numbers individually. It seems Microsoft more »

Microsoft may have released Office for Mac 2011 back in October of last year, however there likely someone who is still on the fence about whether or not they need to make the purchase. And assuming you fit into that category you will probably be happy to hear that there is now a 30 day more »

It’s been a long time coming, and today Microsoft has finally announced that Office for Mac 2011 finally has a firm release date. The next version of the ubiquitous office suite will hit stores on October 26. The new version brings the Mac suite in line with the Windows version, adding in the ribbon interface. more »

With Windows 7 now out in the wild for almost a month, Microsoft has time to unleash another beta product on us for testing. This beta comes in the form of Microsoft Office 2010. The Office 2010 beta will feature everything minus the online version, which is currently being tested within Microsoft. Somewhat surprising for more »

Microsoft really seems to enjoy putting out multiple versions of products. There’s Vista and Windows 7, each with a large number of versions, two SKUs for the Xbox 360 (recently down from three, excluding limited-edition versions). Not content with those, Microsoft had decided to announce Office Starter 2010. To be fair, however, Office Starter is more »

Once again Microsoft has come back with the Ultimate Steal for Office Ultimate 2007. The offer will allow current students (of a registered school) that have a valid .edu email address to pick up a copy of Office Ultimate 2007 for just $59.95. For the purpose of this offer, the copy of Office Ultimate 2007 more »

If you haven’t realized yet: it is on. The “it” being the battle between Google and Microsoft for control of, well, control of everything. Today, we’ve got the billboard war.

Where does tech bleed out of blogs and in front of the common man? Billboards. If you happen to be in San Fransico, Chicago, New York, or Boston, you’ll be greeted by reasons why Google Apps are better than Microsoft Office. Google will tout why 3,000 companies a day are making the switch and how silly and outdated you look by not switching (it’s implied). Over 1.75 million have made the switch, so why not you?

This week Microsoft released a technical preview of many of the features included in its latest version of MS Office. While Microsoft was showing off all of Office 2010’s bells and whistles, the company quietly ended support for MS Office 2000 yesterday. The 2000 version was released June of 1999 for a suggested retail price more »

Did you think Microsoft forgot all that stuff they said about clouds and their products? Nope. After the flurry of activity surrounding Office 2010 this morning, here comes the web part. Microsoft will begin limited testing of the web apps today by invitation. When the apps are available online, all you’ll need to get in is a Live ID as the apps like Word and Excel will be free.

Microsoft is back again with its Ultimate Steal promotion for anyone attending a U.S. educational institution and actively enrolled in at least a half course credit. You have to be able to provide an .edu email address to complete the purchase as well.

It looks like the price is the same as the promotion they ran in 2007 and 2008. For $59.95, you get the Ultimate Version of Office 2007, which includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneNote, Groove, Publisher, Access, InfoPath 2007, and Accounting Express 2008. For price comparison, this is selling for $399.99 on Amazon.