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Office 2008 for Mac now available for pre-order

The long wait is over: Office 2008 for Mac is now available for pre-order from Apple and Amazon, with a street release date of January 15th.

It seems like just yesterday that Microsoft was on stage at the 2006 Macworld keynote, reaffirming their commitment to making Microsoft applications for the Mac. At that time, Office 2004 was not a universal binary, and could only be run on Apple's new Intel machines through the Rosetta emulation layer.

Office 2008 will be a universal binary, and it looks to be a nice leap forward (as it should be, considering that it was almost four years in the making).

[via TUAW.com]

Filed under: Weekend Review

Download Squad week in review

This week, as we do every week, we spent most of our waking moments following all those tiny hamsters which keep the Internet humming along.

Here's the best of what we saw this week.



Twine: a social network built on the semantic web

The semantic web is one way we might give search engines a little more intelligence about the things for which we're searching. Our own Brad Linder caught up with Nova Spivack, the CEO and Founder of Radar Networks, one of the companies pioneering the Semantic Web.

Adobe: In 10 years, all our apps will be online

It's no surprise that simple, everyday applications have picked themselves up and moved from our hard drives to the Internet. While word-processing, editing spreadsheets, and some minor image editing makes sense in a browser based world, we were shocked to hear Adobe say that in ten years, all their apps will be online. Photoshop, maybe. Premiere? We'd like to see that.

Dr. Shutleworth or; How I learned to stop worrying and love Open Source

We're openly predicting that Ubuntu 7.10, released Thursday, will be the tipping point for Linux on the desktop. Could it be true?

Mark Shuttleworth talks Ubuntu 7.10

Speaking of Mark Shuttleworth, Download Squad attended a virtual press conference with none other than the space traveling, Linux advocate himself. Find out what Shuttleworth had to say about the launch of Ubuntu 7.10

Dept of obvious research: Girls with photos online get more messages

We were less than shocked to learn; Girls who post photos online are more likely to be contacted by interested strangers than boys, or girls who don't post pictures. The Pew Internet & American Life studies group spent actual money to settle this long debated question once and for all. We'd have never guessed.

Other popular articles this week:

A Tiny peek at Windows 7
RIAA sues Usenet. Wait, you can do that?
Office 2008 for Mac; The first screenshots

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