TMO Scoop - Mac Office 2004 Ships (W/Screen Shots)
TMO Scoop - Mac Office 2004 Ships (W/Screen Shots)
by , 3:10 PM EDT, May 11th, 2004
TMO's Devil's Advocate, John Kheit, received notice from the Apple Store yesterday that his copy of Mac Office 2004 had shipped, and it did indeed arrive last night. TMO contacted Microsoft to verify that the product was shipping in wide release, and a spokesperson confirmed that the newest Mac Office was in stores. An announcement from Microsoft to this effect should be released in the near-future.
A sceen shot of John Kheit's shipping invoice:

Apple Store shipping invoice
Note that the price on the invoice is for the education version of Office 2004. The Microsoft spokesperson confirmed for TMO that the education (Student/Teacher) and Standard versions of Mac Office are shipping, as they all have the same code-base. Microsoft also said the Pro version of Mac Office 2004 would ship when Virtual PC ships later this year.
The spokesperson also confirmed that the education version ships with three licenses that gives the user "Rights to install on three computers in your household." Requirements for purchasing the education version are as follows:
- Full or part-time students
- Home-schooled students
- Full or part-time faculty or staff of an accredited educational institution.
We also have a screen shot from the software that John Kheit took on his system that shows off some of the new features. Note that the screen shot was taken on a 17" PowerBook, and so is very large.
TMO will be offering an in-depth look at the shipping version of Mac Office 2004 in the near future.
Observer Comments
Tue May 11, 2004 3:30 pm Subject: Quick - what about "groupware/exchange' compatibility?!
Tue May 11, 2004 4:10 pm Subject: anything new and exciting in excel
Tue May 11, 2004 4:13 pm Subject: Exchange support?
Tue May 11, 2004 4:37 pm Subject: I hope the final version is a lot faster than the beta!
My wife got onto the beta testing program and I tried out the new version. On her 1.25 GHz Aluminum PowerBook, it lagged bad… We then tried it on my Sawtooth with a 1.4 GHz upgrade card, a Radeon 8500, and 1 GB or RAM. It lagged just as bad.
If the performance of the final version isn't improved, there are going to be a lot of dissatisfied people out there…
Wed May 12, 2004 8:09 am Subject: Product Activation?
> No one in corporate or higher-ed will buy this update if it doesn't offer
> REAL M$ Exchange support. Any word on whether it does?
No it doesn't (Microsoft will of course lie and claim it does).
Yes you can send/receive mail, yes you can send/receive calendar appointments (allegedly this FINALLY works), yes you can see/use the global address list.
No you cannot use .PST files, no you cannot use the same archive facilities as Outlook, no it has none of the clever synchronisation features of Outlook, no it is NOT a MAPI client, no you cannot access other Exchange users inboxes and calendars (the same way Outlook can).
In this scenario Entourage 2004 is basically an IMAP client with a few extras, it is far from being Outlook for Macintosh.
You can do all the above using Apple's own Mail client with the addition of Snerdware's GroupCal & Address X and Apple's iCal & Address Book. What's more arguably this solution will be BETTER than Entourage 2004.
Thu May 13, 2004 10:04 pm Subject: What's on my MenuBar, Dock, and Desktop...
Hi All:
Some of the readers asked about what was on my menubar.
Anyway here's a list with links:
My menu bar has the following items in it:
Synergy (controls iTunes):
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/10042
Jon's Phone Tool:
http://homepage.mac.com/jonn8/jpt/
AppleScript Menu:
/Applications/AppleScript/Install\ Script\ Menu.app
Text/Language Input:
/System/Library/CoreServices/Menu\ Extras/TextInput.menu
(Just navigate to the "secret" or well hidden Menu Extras directory by following the above path and just double-click on the item and it will appear in your menu. This is nice for things like the DiscEject Menu Extra, that is otherwise not available to singe drive users.
MenuMeters (my favorite):
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/10451
Bluetooth:
/System/Library/CoreServices/Menu\ Extras/Bluetooth.menu
Displays:
/System/Library/CoreServices/Menu\ Extras/Displays.menu
DiscEject:
/System/Library/CoreServices/Menu\ Extras/Eject.menu
Battery:
/System/Library/CoreServices/Menu\ Extras/Battery.menu
Clock:
/System/Library/CoreServices/Menu\ Extras/Clock.menu
WinSwitch:
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/14580
I have everything I can set to black/white/grey so as not to clash too much.
As for my desktop image, a friend modified some Nasa satellite composite images (smoothed them out), so I cannot post links as it was done as part of some project. However, the composites are great themselves, and you can find them here:
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/BlueMarble/
My Dock is rather vanilla because I've mostly been using LaunchBar (and now QuickSilver):
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/7354
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/14831
" (had hoped that thrid parties would build on and extend Apple's stuff but nobody ever does) "
Check out http://www.snerdware.com for exactly that.
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