We’ve just released a new feedback tool on our web site that allows customers to provide direct feedback our team. You can select “Send Feedback” from the “Help” menu in any of our applications or directly visit the MacBU feedback form located at http://www.microsoft.com/mac/default.aspx?pid=feedback Everything is anonymous, just select your application, version and language and […]

Nadyne Mielke writes a good summary about what it’s like to interview for a position at MacBU. It got me thinking about my first interview at Microsoft and I hope you’ll forgive this nostalgic post, but I thought it might be interesting for those of you who can’t connect the dots backwards just yet. Okay, […]

I’m moving my blog feed to FeedBurner because if I include media, folks can subscribe to this blog with iTunes as a podcast and get the video or audio downloaded automatically. Also I get ego enhancing stats about how many folks are subscribed to my blog. 🙂 The new feed address is http://feeds.feedburner.com/davidweiss Please point […]

When we released Office 2004 we also posted some documentation for system admins who deploy Mac Office to a large install base. We call these kind of documents “Resource Kits” and the current Office 2004 resource kit is located here. I was personally involved in the creation of this document, and now we’re looking into […]

Here’s a bit of advice from someone who’s been spending a lot of time working in Rosetta the last few days: Buy as much RAM as your MacTel can handle. It makes a huge difference. I’ve got 2 GB in my MacBook Pro now and compared to the 512 MB that came stock, it’s like […]

5 years old and it’s been a great 5 years. The future sure does look bright! To sum up my feelings about Mac OS X, I’ll say what I’ve always said, “Get a Mac. It just works.”

So with Apple’s new Intel based Macs, they no longer use the Open Firmware BIOS. Since that announcement in January, I’ve often wondered why Apple chose EFI. Yesterday in a MacEnterprise.org webcast “Demystifying the Transition” Apple shared these two slides: Larger ROMs: This makes sense, more features, more space needed. Okay at a high level […]

OpenXML Developer launched today and guess who’s on the list? Apple. If you’re wondering what the OpenXML Community is all about here’s the Mission Statement from the website: Mission Statement The Open XML Formats Developer Group is being formed as a community for developers to exchange information with each other regarding the usage of the […]

But, alas, it’s not from MacBU… A few days ago the Microsoft Mouse software turned 6.0. The drivers may be downloaded here under the laconic name of IntelliPoint 6.0 Mouse Software for Mac OS 10.2.x to 10.4 (excluding 10.0 and 10.1) My first reaction: Way to go for using Apple’s installer! Looks great! But then, […]

If you use Apple Remote Desktop as much as I do and you’ve just got a new MacBook Pro, and you are working from home, well then, this doesn’t help the situation.