Nonetheless, Microsoft claims it is still listening to Macintosh customers and says it remains committed to the Mac OS X platform.When having to get an office suite for your new Mac or replacing your old one and despite the fact that Apple's iWork suite has gotten better each year, Microsoft Office still is most probably the golden standard.ĭespite the fact that there are also many other free and open source alternative out there that could help you create text documents, presentations, spreadsheets databases and all kinds of drawings ( OpenOffice, LibreOffice, and Apple's Pages, Numbers, and Keynote, to name just the most important ones that come to mind), Microsoft's Office suite is still one of the leading solutions of this type on the Mac platform, due to its long tradition of offering professional grade tools for any task you might have to deal within a productivity environment. Microsoft released Messenger for Mac 5.0 in August, but the update included no consumer-side enhancements to the communications client, instead offering enhancements to corporate messaging.
In March 2005 Microsft nixed MSN Internet Service for Mac OS X. Back in 2003, Microsoft officially stopped development of Internet Explorer for Macintosh. Tuesday's update continues a recent trend by Microsoft to bypass consumer Mac users and instead focus on enterprise customers using the platform. Security updates and high-priority fixes were added to SP2 based on tests by Microsoft in addition to feedback from customers, and data received through the anonymous error reporting that occurs within Office 2004.
"We're in constant communication with our customers, and we're acting on their requests for improved tools and a better Entourage experience."
“For SP2, we worked with the Exchange Server team so that together we can help our enterprise customers collaborate seamlessly across platforms," Scott Erickson, Microsoft's Mac BU product management director, said.
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