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Today is launch day. Office 2008 is now available for you for purchase. I've already seen lots of people wandering around today with their brand-new copies, which is a great feeling.

This morning, I got to sit in the Stevenote and find Office 2008 getting its shout-out within the first five minutes. How cool is that? As Steve introduced the MacBook Air, Office 2008 played a role there as well. It was the app used as the example for installation, which I certainly liked seeing. Plus I got several items from my MWSF wishlist, and got to see Randy Newman play a couple of songs live, so I really can't complain. Now I've got to see about convincing my manager that, with all of the travelling I do, a MacBook Air sure would be nice ...

After lunch with some of my MacBU colleagues, I stopped into a drug store to pick up some cough drops. (Talking all day means that cough drops are essential!) As I left there, someone came up to me and said that they see from my badge that I'm from Microsoft. He asked if I know anything about Entourage. I smiled and said that I did. He asked if Entourage 2008 will sync with his iPhone. Yes, it will [1], I told him. He asked me to marry him. I'm not sure if this is a good sign or a bad sign for the rest of the week ...

Back on the show floor, I spent some time observing the Microsoft booth in action. It was full of people, and they all seemed genuinely excited about Office 2008. It was really cool to see. Then I headed over to the blogger lounge to post my very first post to the brand-spankin'-new Mac Mojo and spend some time in there chatting with other bloggers.

I'm taking a quick break right now to check my email and type this up (and sit down for a couple of minutes), and now I'm going to start up Software Update and head over to the Warfield to go to the MacBlast party and see Devo. If you're at MWSF the rest of this week, swing by the main Microsoft booth and say hi!

[1] So will Entourage 2004, if you're running 11.2 or later. To enable it in both Entourage 2004 and Entourage 2008, go into the Entourage preferences, select Sync Services, then select what you want to sync. If you've got a lot of stuff to sync, give it a few minutes to get into the Truth, and then sync your iPhone (or any other device supported by Sync Services). Voila: everything's on your phone.

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  • Anonymous
    January 16, 2008
    I spent the afternoon in the Office 2008 booth at Macworld Expo. There were five questions that I answered over and over and over again.