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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:

  1. Full or part-time students
  2. Home-schooled students
  3. 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.


Click on the above image for a much, much larger version (1440 x 900)

TMO will be offering an in-depth look at the shipping version of Mac Office 2004 in the near future.

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Close Name:UserNameUser Posts: 61 Joined: 12 Sep 2002
Subject: Quick - what about "groupware/exchange' compatibility?!

Really need good integrated e-mail/contacts/calendar integration.

would rather not go all M$ but no one else has it integrated!!!

(had hoped that thrid parties would build on and extend Apple's stuff but nobody ever does)

Does MSO2004 offer anything new? New compatibilites?

Close Name:randompro42 Posts: 215 Joined: 25 Sep 2003
Subject: anything new and exciting in excel

that is the only app from M$ that i will ever be interested in. so, is there anything new and exciting in terms of formulae and such in excel?

TRO

Close Name:FlipFriddle Posts: 454 Joined: 18 Dec 2001
Subject: Exchange support?

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?

View Name:Guest
Subject: I hope the final version is a lot faster than the beta!
View Name:Guest
Subject: John Kheit's widgets
View Name:Guest
Subject: Your wallpaper...
Close Name:Michael Burton Posts: 3 Joined: 29 Apr 2003
Subject: Product Activation?

The question that will determine whether I will order this:

Does it have Product Activation?

View Name:Guest
Subject: Re: Exchange Support?
Close Name:jkheit Posts: 20 Joined: 27 Feb 2003
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

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Close Name:Mace Posts: 9021 Joined: 07 Aug 2003
Subject:

I hate bundling.

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