Mac Mojo
Confessions of a Mac Switcher at Microsoft
Hi. My name is Blair and I'm a switcher. I guess it all started around OS X. I'd been working in a...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 01/31/2007
Introducing a “certain je-ne-sais-quoi”
A new year, a new blogger! Today’s post is all about me! I’m taking the plunge in the Mojo so let me...
Author: eric.paquin Date: 01/30/2007
Great time at Macworld this year...
Update: TUAW has posted a Macworld 07 interview with Sheridan that I've added to the list below. I...
Author: Brian Johnson MS Date: 01/14/2007
16 years of MacWorld
This is my 16th MacWorld, if you can believe that. When I think back on all the things I have seen...
Author: ExCntx Date: 01/11/2007
The Times They Are A Changin'
For many Entourage users prior to today, March 2007 was a month to lose sleep over. The United...
Author: AndyRuff Date: 01/10/2007
Microsoft Announcements at Macworld '07
Lot's of great news coming out of San Francisco today. Check out our announcement of Office 2008....
Author: Brian Johnson MS Date: 01/09/2007
Bay Area Mac users needed again!
You responded in droves when we last asked for usability test participants! We have another...
Author: Office for Mac Date: 12/22/2006
And we're back!
Thanks to a lot of hard work from a lot of people, I'm happy to let you all know that the new Mac...
Author: Schwieb Date: 12/19/2006
Converters Coming! Free and (Fairly) Fast.
There's been some pretty alarmist news stories this morning (apcstart.com; CrunchGear) about file...
Author: sherjo Date: 12/05/2006
A day in the life, usability edition
A few weeks ago, Brad told us what a day in his life is like. Inspired by Brad, here's a day in the...
Author: Nadyne Richmond Date: 11/28/2006
Speaking of numbers...
One of the features in Excel I'm in charge of testing is "Calculation, Functions, and Formulas",...
Author: joeleblanc Date: 11/15/2006
Living complexity
Brad's Carl Sagan-style post on code size stirs up some familiar questions about complexity...
Author: Geoff Price Date: 11/10/2006
MacBOO to you! Happy Halloween and TidBITs Treats!
Today kicks off our official sponsorship of TidBITS, and it's a real Halloween treat for us to work...
Author: sherjo Date: 10/31/2006
PowerPoint Links
I've been thinking about doing a PowerPoint links post for a long time. Communications is one of...
Author: Brian Johnson MS Date: 10/29/2006
thanks!
I put out a call on this blog last week to help me find some users who are Entourage and PowerPoint...
Author: Nadyne Richmond Date: 10/26/2006
Closet space, the final frontier
The last event of C4 was a visit to Chicago's Adler Planetarium, with a special behind the scenes...
Author: Office for Mac Date: 10/23/2006
Checking out and checking in
C4 is over and I'm back in Seattle, which means these last two posts will be Almost Live-blogging...
Author: Office for Mac Date: 10/23/2006
The Peaceable Kingdom
More from Olof at C4.Curiously, there's a lot less Microsoft bashing at C4 than there was at WWDC....
Author: Office for Mac Date: 10/21/2006
Film at Eleven
It's Olof again, liveblogging from C4.John Gruber took us on a tour of Apple User Interface last...
Author: Office for Mac Date: 10/21/2006
C4 is Teh Bomb
Hi - I'm Olof. I guess I'm the first "guest blogger" on MacMojo. I'm a developer on the Mac Office...
Author: Office for Mac Date: 10/20/2006
Looking Back
Before I get started, I suppose some sort of introduction is appropriate for readers who have only...
Author: Rick Schaut Date: 10/20/2006
Bay Area Mac users needed
Edited to add: This study has now been filled. Thanks for signing up! I know that I’ve asked our...
Author: Nadyne Richmond Date: 10/20/2006
Sweet Sixteen
Just a quick update: Recently we got our blog stats for our first month on the net as the Official...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 10/18/2006
Productivity Links
I spent a lot of time this weekend thinking about links, but I couldn't come up with a really good...
Author: Brian Johnson MS Date: 10/16/2006
Office Delay? Ya Don't Say.
No, seriously, you don't say (or shouldn't), because it isn't true. Over the last few days, some Mac...
Author: sherjo Date: 10/11/2006
Mac Office Updates
Today we released update 11.3.0 for Office 2004 for Mac. You can get this update through Microsoft...
Author: Brian Johnson MS Date: 10/10/2006
Trouble signing in with Messenger for Mac 6.0?
Ah, weekends. Time off, down time from thinking about bugs. Well, not if you’re Rebecca, one of our...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 10/10/2006
Mac Office Resource Links
Ever have one of those really busy weeks where you can't even remember what you did at the end of...
Author: Brian Johnson MS Date: 10/08/2006
Incremental mojo
Hello, another introduction for you – my name is Geoff Price, and I’m the Product Unit Manager for...
Author: Geoff Price Date: 10/06/2006
of babies and bathwater
A couple of weeks ago, Mary gave us a behind-the-scenes look at talking to the press. One of the...
Author: Nadyne Richmond Date: 10/03/2006
Site funkiness - thanks for your patience
FYI - last night the servers that host all 3,500 MSDN blogs (including ours) were upgraded to a new...
Author: Office for Mac Date: 10/02/2006
Messenger Links
So the big news from MacBU this week was the release of Messenger for Mac 6. This was an important...
Author: Brian Johnson MS Date: 09/30/2006
On the power of a small team -or- Why MacBU testing rocks
Geez, now I have to follow up David's awesomely funny entry about the food alias with my dry post on...
Author: joeleblanc Date: 09/29/2006
Messenger: haves and hA/Ve nots
By now, some of you have heard the news. Today we launched Messenger for Mac 6.0, our first...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 09/27/2006
Weekend Links
OK, I'll have to just admit that Friday is usually a bad day for me to blog. I end up taking care of...
Author: Brian Johnson MS Date: 09/23/2006
Behind the scenes: meeting the press
Late last week, Sheridan and I had the opportunity to meet with some reporters from Australia, Japan...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 09/19/2006
Friday Links: Podcasts
The big link that I saw come into the mac mojo blog this week came from Xbox Live's Major Nelson....
Author: Brian Johnson MS Date: 09/16/2006
Timidly going where I’ve never gone before…
Have you read Robert Scoble and Shel Israel’s book “naked conversations”? In the first chapter,...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 09/08/2006
another way to give us feedback
Aside from leaving comments in this blog and the other various MacBU blogs, or sending us feedback...
Author: Nadyne Richmond Date: 09/06/2006
Great Expectations
(Sorry, Charles.) Hiya folks! I'm Erik Schwiebert, one of the development leads here in the MacBU. I...
Author: Schwieb Date: 09/02/2006