“I go to trade shows with a mission based on my view of what matters, which oft times yet entirely by chance fails to overlap with what everyone else considers important,” Tom Yager writes for InfoWorld.
“Consider my take on Macworld Expo. I think that the headliner there, although Mac heads will be loath to acknowledge it, will be Microsoft. It’s been four years since Office for Mac, the one piece of software that every professional Mac owner must have, has felt its creator’s touch. The new features in Office 2008 for Mac are almost incidental. Office 2008 is Universal, meaning that it runs natively on Intel and PowerPC Macs. Microsoft came by that honestly, using Xcode and Objective-C, accumulating expertise along the way that has made the developer staff blogs of Microsoft’s Mac Business Unit one of the very few I check out regularly,” Yager writes.
MacDailyNews Take: Tom’s gotta lay off the egg nog. There’s no way that Microsoft’s Office for Mac will be the headliner for Macworld Expo. Footnote, maybe. Give Apple’s free 30-day iWork ’08 trial a try today!
“Lest you think that I’m writing about Officeworld Expo, Macs built on Intel’s Penryn 45-nanometer Core 2 CPUs will roll out at Macworld. I’m selfishly hoping that a Penryn MacBook Pro will be first out of the gate,” Yager writes.
Yager also wants an eight-core Xserve, OS X Server virtualization sans GUI at the flip of a switch (or click of a button), and thinks that “the iPhone will be a star attraction as well.”
Yager predicts, “The 3G iPhone will make its bow,” which, of course, puts the kibosh on his belief that Microsoft will be Macworld Expo’s headliner. Yager also thinks that we might “see a hint of the iPhone/iPod Touch software development kit (SDK) that Apple plans to deliver in February.”
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I for one am delighted Microsoft will headline Macworld Expo 2008. Someone has to bring jaw dropping innovation, good taste and customer-focused technology to this thing, and we all know it ain’t gonna be Apple. I predict Microsoft will be there to announce the I-MAC Zune in brown which can download ads from Zune Marketplace and sync them with Windows Mobile devices wirelessly through the I-MAC Zune Live Docking Station Ultimate Edition. I don’t know why Apple even tries after being outclassed by the geniuses in Redmond. Again.
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I am successfully running my business without one single Micros**t product, hardware or software.
It can be done people. Let the “Zune Tang” types endure the wretched dog’s dinner that is ‘Windows’ for the rest of their lives.
Don’t attack them, pity them.
I would encourage all you fellow Apple fans to put your money where your mouth is and dump Micros**t for good.
Anthony,
Go get NeoOffice. Mailing labels are a snap.
God.
Maybe some of you can have your Mac sans Office, but for those of us stuck working for a living, we must.
You see, as much as we don’t like M$, most big companies use their garbage because they’ve got no balls.
Office is a must, sadly.
At least this is a good update – no really huge improvements over 2004 as far as Entourage goes, but at least they had the decency to put the “out of office” option there.
And, it is decently fast.
Microsoft(R)
Your rut. Our revenue.
@Zune Tang
Please, give it up.
Do us all a favor in 2008 and go to another board.
The schtick is way too old now.
“I think that the headliner there, although Mac heads will be loath to acknowledge it, will be Microsoft”
it isn’t so much “loath to acknowledge” as “noticing that office is less and less relevant.
….maybe they should try making good software and keeping it up to date. but then that would be 180 degrees from what they do today in every other part of the company, so…..
“…the one piece of software that every professional Mac owner must have…”
What rubbish!
I’m a professional Mac owner and if I have anything to say about it (and I do) it’s highly unlikely (on second thought… let’s just impossible) that Microsoft’s bloated carcass of a software suite (or any MS product) is ever going to infest my new 17″ MacBook Pro… or any other Mac I get from here on.
I learned my lesson dealing with Office 2000. iWork apps also helped.
Well, I’m a professional, and even on my ancient Thinkpad I don’t use any MS products beyond a lean, buttoned down win2k. Firefox, OpenOffice works just fine. Never would know I needed MSOffice. On the Mac side, no MS software at all, and I function just fine. Firefox, Safari, Adobe, iWork, etc. What does MS make that anyone really needs, if you think about it? Visio? Project? I can live without them. Outlook? The biggest mess I ever got involved with, and I’m so glad I trashed it 4 years ago. Just overkill. Didn’t need it and it’s overhead. I’m completely looking at the rest of the world and finding everything I need, a lot of it free, or nearly free. I wonder how long the empire will be able to hide behind it’s walls before they crumble…
We all know that we can open .doc files with TextEdit right?
Sometimes the formatting isn’t exact, but it saves me having to open Word on a regular basis (and I know my Mac is more stable if Word is NOT running).
I predict an ultraslim 10 and 13in macbook with a touchscreen keyboard like the iphones screen only bigger, where you can switch on and off extra keys and functions. Kinda like two screens hinged together with the bottom one being multitouch.
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God.
Maybe some of you can have your Mac sans Office, but for those of us stuck working for a living, we must.
You see, as much as we don’t like M$, most big companies use their garbage because they’ve got no balls.
Office is a must, sadly.
Office is NOT a must! Who do you think the rest of us are? We are not unemployed, homeless people. We are working professionals who have found MANY different ways to be MS free. In the process, we are more productive, less frustrated, have more space on our hard drives, and more money in our pockets! I am really sick and tired of all the whiny people who just accept the FUD that MS is necessary.
Does anyone recall Jobs’ joke about a 10″ iPod during one of the events last year? Methinks Jobs has really begun to enjoy the attention and play with it– like his comment about TV being a hobby. That was an obvious misdirection that causes people to intensify interest, not ignore it.
If Jobs jokes about a 10″ iPod to an eager crowd, you had bet he has seen a 10″ iPod and loves teasing everyone.
I am starting to think ChrissyOne is Zune Tang.
Why isn’t Chrissy here when Zune Tang is?
Very very interesting.
@w8 n c
Yeah… HueyLong comments as if she is where but she ain’t here.
Where is MDN without the intelligent lady we all like to read.
Microsoft better pray that they are not the lead story from Macworld. If they are, it will shine that much more light on all of the things that MS deliberately left out of Office 2008 (VBA support, full Exchange support most notably).
I am with the anti-macrosloth campaigners.
iWorks just fine for me… and if jobs wants to introduce a newer version – I welcome it.
My New Years Resolution:
to COMPLETELY remove any application that MacroSloth has anything to do with. Yes, that means FireFox too.
I want all Apple and any free developers innovation.
Example, recently, I am toying with the application DrewBerry – thanks to whomever mentioned it. It does what LineForm and Intaglio do as far as using Apples CoreGraphics for Vector drawing. It’s Free and I have spoken with the Author who said he will keep it free. Sure it’s not perfect, but nor is MS OFFICE.
Those are the joys I find in the MAC COMMUNITY.
Apple or free – that’s for me!
If Yager is correct, Apple can have a pile of goat cheese do the keynote because MacWorld will be a snoozer.
“like his comment about TV being a hobby. That was an obvious misdirection that causes people to intensify interest, not ignore it.”
Now if only some of those interested people would buy it.
@eitltd
I hear you loud and clear!
Not all businesses need Office.
300 people here in mine… all use TextEdit and NeoOffice – and some of us who asked – that’s about 37 are using iWorks.
We get .DOC from clients but only read them or grab text “copy” to fit ads.
iWorks is doing very well.
Only Excel was a strong hold in daily office use but NeoOffice offered the same advantages of MS Office. So bye bye…
Done the battle is over.
At home – no MacroSloth crap. That is my goal.
Windows Media Player gone last year. I even had a old IE still on my machine. THANKS AppDelete for helping me say bye bye to the useless stuff.
“I am successfully ruining my business without one single Micros**t product, hardware or software.” (sic)
Just imagine what you could do with the power of MicroShaft behind you!
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@ @R–
Oh ye of little memory…
iPod didn’t seel hugely right off the bat either. Most people didn’t know what to do with it. Early sales fluctuated, then when the great unwashed became a bit more sophisticated, iPod exploded.
TV is a different animal, but it was introduced without the same oompf. Yet, there is a great deal of promise and sales are not considered to be a failure either– even though the product caters to only half the US population (with HDtvs).
Hobbies are hobbies because they’re fun, engaging, and challenging. Otherwise, we’d give them up and call them… well… over. TV will sell more. Early sales mean little. For a reminder:
iPod sales chart: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Ipod_sales.svg
It would be a stroke of genius.
Until my grad school supports Pages, the word it is for me. It also doesn’t help in that Pages does not do endnotes. My MA thesis relies on endnotes beyond a work cited. For as much as iWork, I use Keynote and Numbers all the tim, yet Pages still is the underdog in the academic world.
Steve would take the stage in a chartreuse bikini top instead of his beloved black turtleneck before Microsoft would ever headline a MacWorld. Sure, they might introduce new products but headline? No way. My money’s on new hardware, iPhone firmware and new partnerships.