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MSN Client for Mac OS X
DrJonesAC2 writes "MSN has released its software client for Mac OS X today. This software functions just like the PC version with a few exceptions (like chat and money). This software launch has its glitches, however; you cannot download it from Microsoft's Mac site you need to go here to get it."
for MSIE, that is. I can't remember where I read it (and if I'm making it up, I get credit for calling it first ;), but MS is supposedly replacing IE with MSN Explorer for your internet exploring needs.
... which is the reason, I guess, that MS Project is such a joy to use? That we can now be thankful that when Word crashes now it saves a useful recovery document 50% of the time? That Word:Mac v.X is the only non-beta program under OSX that crashes on me more than once a month? (Yes, that's more than the Safari Beta, with Word:Mac at a crash per 7 uses or so.) That Longhorn, scheduled to arrive in 2005, will be implementing features from OSX from 2001, like using a 3D accelerator as a 2D compositing engine, and calling them revolutionary?
I'm an IT guy for a medical company. I spend 90% of my time helping my colleagues work around bugs in Office and related applications. I can't tell you the number of times someone has come to me flustered because their formatting was eaten after deleting a single line, or resizing a table. And is it just me, or did page numbering get more retarded in Office 2K2? Edits not done to sections or page breaks or the header/footer change the numbering? WTF?!
I won't even get into issues of workflow and UI design, aside from saying that Microsoft shot itself in the foot by making the workflow of Word:Mac a thousand times better than Word PC 2K2.
If Microsoft really does have genious coders working for it, they've yet to produce code to their potential.
- Cloud
I just assumed it had something to do with their instant messaging service, you know, err... MSN... Messenger. (or is it .NET Messenger? Windows Messenger? Something...)
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I agree in principle but more choice is a Good Thing? for the Macintosh platform.
bib brother be damned. Microsoft Office for Mac OS X is great software hands down. I'd use good software even if it was called John Ashcroft's Super AIM SpySuite.