Mac users to get new Office suite for intel Macs
TechWeb | at | by Mike
Microsoft will update its Office productivity suite for Apple users later this year with a new version that for the first time takes advantage of the Intel processors in new Macs. The update, Microsoft's first in three years to the Macintosh version of Office, should help speed graphics processing in PowerPoint and other apps, Microsoft says.
The world's No. 1 software maker said Tuesday at the Macworld Conference & Expo in San Francisco that it plans to ship Office 2008 For Mac during the second half of this year. The package of word processing, spreadsheet, presentation graphics, and E-mail software is designed for both the Intel Core chips that power all new Macs, and older Apple Computer machines that use IBM's Power PC processor.