Your (not so) friendly email client Gmail Man!

Interesting video apparently shown by Microsoft at their Global Exchange Sales Conference recently. Its cheesey but so true!

Link courtesy of John Gruber at Daring Fireball

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Microsoft Begs Users to Stop Using IE 6

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Looks like Microsoft are joining the rest of us in crying out for the world to final ditch this ancient and limited browser for newer technology

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30 day trial of Microsoft Office 11 for Mac now available

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That's right, over 3 months since it was first released and ahead of Macworld 2011, Microsot have finally released a 30 day trial their flagship office and productivity suite of software for the Mac, Office 2011.

I've been using it for over a month though and its a vast improvement on the previous version (2008) and brings many of the features available to our PC cousins to the Mac. Most notibly Outlook replaces Entourage for the first time.

First impressions? I personally prefer iWork on the Mac for word processing, spreadsheets and presentations. Having using Office for nearly 2 decades I found the PC versions bloated and iWork is a refreshing change. That said if you need to integrate with Exchange or like me work with colleagues using PC's then having a native version of both Word and Outlook is a great help.

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