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Office for Mac 2011 Update Brings Office 365 Support

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Microsoft has updated Office for Mac 2011, fixing some bugs, adding some features, and adding compatibility with the Office 365 subscription service.

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The latest Office for Mac 2011 version 14.3.4 includes a variety of feature additions that brings the application suite somewhat up to spec with its Windows counterpart, and includes bug fixes for compatibility issues that hindered interoperability between PC and Mac versions of Word, Outlook and other titles.

In what could be the most important update, Microsoft added the ability for existing Office for Mac 2011 users to integrate with Office 365, the subscription service that gives users access to the latest and greatest software updates, SkyDrive cloud storage, and SharePoint access for Word.

Fixes included in the new version:

  • Coauthoring session with Microsoft PowerPoint Web App and Microsoft PowerPoint for Mac
  • After token expires, does not prompt for credentials in Microsoft Outlook for Mac
  • Calibri Light font not included in Office for Mac
  • SetupUI is shown to user on start after Office for Mac is already activated
  • Saving files to SkyDrive and SharePoint in Microsoft Word for Mac
  • Folder contains excess white space: Error 1025 in Outlook for Mac
  • XLIST command that is used by Gmail is deprecated in Outlook for Mac
  • Local group mail cannot be sent in Outlook for Mac
  • Remote devices lose control while in Presentation Mode in Microsoft PowerPoint for Mac
  • File format extension support in PowerPoint for Mac
  • Searching continues after user cancels in Outlook for Mac
  • Items go into Junk Mail in Outlook for Mac
  • Blocked Senders List under Junk Email Protection in Outlook for Mac

Tuesdays update will allow Office 2011 users to sign up for Microsoft Office 365 if they’d like. A subscription to the Home Premium edition runs $ 99.99 per year, or $ 9.99 per month. The subscription allows the use of Office on up to five computers.

The update is available through Auto Update or Microsoft’s website.

Microsoft Issues Security Updates for Office for Mac 2008 and 2011

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Microsoft released a pair of updates today for its Office for Mac suites – both Office for Mac 2008, and Office for Mac 2011. The updates address “critical security issues” within the suites, and also improve security overall. Notably, it even includes a fix for a particularly nasty bug that could allow an attacker to overwrite files on your Mac.

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From the release notes:

Office 2008 for Mac 12.3.6 Update

This update fixes critical issues and also helps to improve security. It includes fixes for vulnerabilities that an attacker can use to overwrite the contents of your computer’s memory with malicious code. For more information about this update, please visit the Microsoft Web site.

Applies to: Office 2008, Office 2008 Home and Student Edition, Office 2008 Special Media Edition, Word 2008, Excel 2008, PowerPoint 2008, Entourage 2008, Office 2008 for Mac Business Edition.

Office for Mac 2011 14.3.2 Update

This update fixes critical issues and also helps to improve security. It includes fixes for vulnerabilities that an attacker can use to overwrite the contents of your computer’s memory with malicious code. For more information about this update, please visit the Microsoft Web site.

Applies to: Office 2011, Office 2011 Home and Business Edition, Word 2011, Excel 2011, PowerPoint 2011, Outlook 2011, Office for Mac Standard 2011 Edition, Microsoft Office for Mac Home & Student 2011, and Microsoft Office for Mac Academic 2011 

The updates are available now through the AutoUpdate tool build into the Office for Mac suites, as well as direct download from Microsoft using the above links.

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Apple Releases SMC Firmware Update 1.7 for 2010 and 2011 MacBook Pros

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Apple released an SMC firmware update today for Mid-2010 and Early-2011 15 and 17-inch MacBook Pros. The update is intended to fix a rare battery issue affecting certain MacBooks when the battery reaches over 1000 full charge cycles, and follows a previous update released for the same reason on different devices..

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From the release notes:

About MacBook Pro SMC Firmware Update 1.7

This update addresses a rare issue on some Apple notebooks where a battery that has accumulated more than 1000 charge cycles may unexpectedly shut down or stop functioning.

The update weighs in at just 1MB, and is available now for eligible machines through Software Update, as well as for direct download from Apple’s support site.

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Microsoft Releases Office for Mac 2011 Service Pack 3 Update

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After releasing their Office 365 subscription service and Office 2013 earlier today, Microsoft has released a critical update for Office for Mac 2011. The Office for Mac  Service Pack 3 (14.3) update contains a number of bug fixes, and adds support for Microsoft’s new Office 365 subscription program.

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From the release notes:

Microsoft has released an update for Microsoft Office for Mac 2011. In addition to the application improvements mentioned in this article, Office for Mac 2011 is now available as a subscription offering. For more information about subscription, see the Frequently Asked Questions.

This update provides the latest fixes to Office for Mac 2011. These include the following:

  • Meeting invitation times are displayed inaccurately in Outlook for Mac
    Fixes an issue that causes meeting invitation times from non-Exchange calendar servers to be off by one hour during certain times of the year.
  • Slides in collapsed sections cover other slides in Slide Sorter view in PowerPoint for Mac
    Fixes a display issue that involves collapsed sections in Slide Sorter view.
  • Hash tags (#) in hyperlinks aren’t saved correctly in PowerPoint for Mac
    Fixes an issue in which hyperlinks that contain hash tags (#) aren’t saved correctly.
  • Crash occurs when you use Paste Special with a partial table in PowerPoint for Mac
    Fixes an issue that causes PowerPoint to crash when you use the Paste Special option to copy and paste part of a table.
  • RTF text that’s saved in PowerPoint for Windows can’t be pasted into PowerPoint for Mac
    Fixes an issue in which RTF text that’s saved in PowerPoint for Windows can’t be copied and pasted into PowerPoint for Mac.

Microsoft Office 2011 for Mac Service Pack 3 is available now through Microsoft AutoUpdate, as well as direct download from Microsoft’s website.

Asteroid 2011 AG5 Won’t End The World, NASA Chuckles

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Hurrah, no for another “end-of-the-worldish” prediction, yet.

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After passing the December 21, 2012 end of the world prediction, the Earth has again somehow triumphed over another Armageddon threat, as with respect to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) report.

NASA said that the possible collision of the extremely dangerous 140-meter wide asteroid 2011 AG5 with the Earth in 2040 is no longer subsisting. Earlier, the asteroid’s orbit was projected to be creating a 0.2 percent chance doomsday in the year 2040. However, the updates with regards to the asteroid’s trajectory eased the said burden.

University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy (IfA) astronomers David Tholen, Richard Wainscoat and Marco Michel- through their eight-meter Gemini North telescope- found out that 2011 AG5 will not hit the earth by 890,000 kilometers (550,000 miles). This study was done at Mauna Kea, Hawaii on Oct. 20, 21 and 27 of this year.

The astronomers then submitted their findings to the NASA’s Near-Earth Object Program Office at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California for verification. The further study revealed that the possibility of orbital uncertainties has gone down by a factor of 60. Indeed, the said giant space rock is clearly not hitting the planet in 2040.

The said 2040 space rock collision had hit a number of mass media headlines previously.

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