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integration, or lack thereof...
if office 12 is integrated as well into vista as office 11 was into 2000 and xp, then mac users have nothing to worry about. except digging through the couch to find the $300 to get the next version of macoffice.

also, after looking at a running copy of office 12, it looks a lot like a cleaned-up version of macoffice 2004. if microsoft wants to do anything to make improvements (to either office), they should look no further than some of the newer apple iapps and adobe cs/cs2/cs3 suites for gui elements to rip off.

couterpoint brownie points for microsoft, however - time machine looks an awful like the aero interface. and i thought only microsoft stole ideas for the qui...
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Finally an intelligent business decision...  jasonp@... | 08/07/06
I agree  ebernet | 08/07/06
Office will be dropped too, you watch  DarthRidiculous | 08/07/06
How many fools have said this with every version of Office.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 08/07/06
Mac Office makes a lot of money for MS  tic swayback | 08/07/06
Money isn't the problem. Vista is ...  bportlock | 08/07/06
Can't give up a guaranteed revenue stream  tic swayback | 08/07/06
They wont have to  DarthRidiculous | 08/07/06
Those were free, this isn't  tic swayback | 08/07/06
"integrate tightly with Vista"  msolgeek | 08/08/06
integration, or lack thereof...  nix_hed | 08/09/06
The threat to cancel Mac Office 97 is certainly the strongest...  Spikey_Mike | 08/08/06
MBU is too important to MS  Ken_z | 08/07/06
MS needs Office for Mac...  doctorSpoc | 08/09/06
Keep thinking that  DarthRidiculous | 08/09/06
agree but only in part...  doctorSpoc | 08/09/06
Must be hard...  Richard Flude | 08/07/06
Except that MS uses Visual Studio and CodeWarrior...  olePigeon | 08/08/06
Mac OS 10 on Win XP PRO  jdroost | 08/07/06
No  Ken_z | 08/07/06
Nope  tic swayback | 08/08/06
VM and O/Ss  doc_cotton | 08/09/06
OS X is DarwinBSD.  linuxiac | 08/09/06
MS inovation at its finest  not of this world | 08/08/06
That reminds me to un-install this piece of junk from my  michael_t | 08/08/06
how do you un-install this piece of junk  doc_cotton | 08/09/06
MS WRITES OFFICE MAC TO APPEASE REGULATORS, NOT MAKE MONEY  cornfreak | 08/08/06
Hey tic swayback, what about costs?  thegestunkenaraygun | 08/09/06
It is a profit center  tic swayback | 08/09/06
agree in part...  doctorSpoc | 08/09/06
Bottom Line.. who cares!?!  doctorSpoc | 08/09/06
VPC a piece of crap (performance)  Gene(ius):) | 08/09/06
VPC (for PCs) a piece of crap  doc_cotton | 08/09/06

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