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Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 Updated for MacBook Pro Retina Display

Anyone else having massive stability issues with the updated Outlook? I'm running it on a 2012 non-retina i7 MBP. Prior to this update I had no complaints - it was quick and never crashed. Now I've updated it, every single time I open Outlook it crashes instantly and then after the 'send report to' message it re-opens and works. Then if I leave it unused for a little while it repeats the process again. Infuriating...
 
VenusianSky said:
Again? I can name a number of products which they have kick butt on in the past 10 years. .NET and ASP.NET, SQL Server, Xbox, Windows Server, Visual Studio, Windows Azure, SharePoint, Office. Many people just don't have much insight of the business Microsoft is and what their products are. I don't know, maybe it is because many people don't work in a corporate computing environment. Come on now, Windows client OS isn't their only product. It's time to let go of the Mac vs Windows non-war. Steve Jobs himself let go of "Mac vs Windows", to some degree, when he was hired back with Apple so many years ago. He said something in regards of, if we make it all about us versus them, we will lose. If someone has the exact quote, feel free to post.
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You make a good point, but most of these examples seem more about safe reliability. (Not a bad thing!) Windows 8 truly feels like a genuine stab at rocking the boat.
 
chirpie said:
You make a good point, but most of these examples seem more about safe reliability. (Not a bad thing!) Windows 8 truly feels like a genuine stab at rocking the boat.
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I haven't found much of a difference in my personal experience of Windows between version 7 and 8. I've always pinned frequently used apps to my start menu and task bar, and now they are just on a full screen start menu. However, I did reordered my frequently used apps to the far left of the Metro screen, but that is really easy to do. Many people are just very resistant to any change in general, and it is those people that will be throwing the arms up all over a start menu that is not that much different. I don't know about those people, but I don't sit on my computer and play with the start menu all day. I've already heard a claim from some Windows systems person that it is impossible to access the Metro screen from a button on the desktop, which is not true. People spread false information too easily and so many people eat it up.
 
drschwartz said:
I purchased MS Office 2011 for Mac for my iMac and older MBP. I now have a MBP Retina and I'd like to use the same Office license on it. I see the update for Retina at http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/downl....aspx?id=34690 but I need to install the base product first.

How do I get this on my Retina given that I have the DVD but no DVD drive?

TIA,
David
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If you have another computer with a DVD drive on your network, you can use Remote Disc to access it like a local drive. See this info from Apple: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5287
 
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Yeah, only like the REALLY BIG things are retina optimized. Clearly Microsoft didn't care too much about this update, and they probably had their reasons. But I'd really like a good overhaul. Maybe in the next big update. In the meantime Apple should put a darn retina display in the MBA and allow iMac users to run in retina mode without having to do a lot of developer bu11****.

Some of the buttons on this site aren't retina optimized either :(
 
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