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One of the issues I’ve heard customers mention often about Office 2008 is that it doesn’t play well with the Spaces feature that Apple introduced in Mac OS X 10.5. I wrote a long post explaining the issues (almost a … Continue reading →

A little over two years ago, I wrote a long post about bugs. In that post, I briefly discussed a number of reasons why not every known bug gets fixed in any particular dot-release of a product. I’m going to … Continue reading →

John Gruber of Daring Fireball linked to a couple of articles today on how to report a bug. First, John linked to this great writeup by Steven Frank, one of the authors of Transmit. He’s got some very good specifics … Continue reading →

The MacBU released a new update to Office 2008 this past Tuesday, to bring the suite to version 12.1.2. There are a number of important fixes in this update, including changes to Word’s boot sequence that can bring a dramatic … Continue reading →

Now that we’ve released Office 2008 SP1, I’ve been able to focus more of my own attention on the next version of Mac Office. We’ve begun the earliest phase of work, internally called ‘EEQ’, which I think stands for “Engineering … Continue reading →

Shortly after the MacBU released Office 2008 SP1 yesterday, we started to receive reports that the update caused the Office Setup Assistant to launch every time, instead of their desired Office application. We started looking into it right away, and … Continue reading →

It’s finally here! The MacBU has just released Service Pack 1 for Mac Office 2008. You can download the update directly from the Mactopia website (it’s large — about 180 MB), or launch your favorite Office app and select Help/Check … Continue reading →

How does that old Chinese proverb go? “May you live in interesting times!” I have no idea how accurate it is, or whether it is a positive blessing or a curse, but I really do live (and work) in interesting … Continue reading →