


I confess that I’ve been hooked on Outlook since it first appeared in Office 97 and saw Entourage, its equivalent for the last two releases of Office for Mac, as a half-hearted and grossly inferior substitute.Įven though I’m never going to be a serious developer, I’m also glad to see the return of Visual Basic for Applications in Office for Mac 2011. Office for Mac 2011, which is scheduled to launch on 26 October, is another matter entirely.įor starters, the 2011 release includes the return of a Mac version of the Outlook email client and information manager. That attitude explains much of why I never cosied up to the 2008 release of Microsoft’s Office suite for Mac OS X the tools in Office 2004 were very well-suited to my needs and there was no incentive for me to switch. I rush to embrace change when I see a benefit in doing so, but absent a clear incentive, I stay with what I know works.

Some people claim that I don’t readily embrace change, but they’re wrong.
