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This article was written on August 02, 2007 by CyberNet.

Mac users were supposed to be getting the newly redesigned Office 2008, but as it turns out the development team hit a snafu. Now the release date for Office 2008 on Macs is getting pushed back from Fall 2007 to January 2008. Yes, all Intel Mac users running Office 2004 have about 5 more months that they will be putting up with the sluggish performance because of running it with Rosetta.

The new target date of January 2008 will put the release just in time for Macworld, which is where all of the biggest Apple fanatics gather at the same time. So what was the cause for the delay? Craig Eisler, the Microsoft Mac Business Unit’s General Manager, said:

There was no one thing that caused the push—it was more of a perfect storm. The switch to Intel processors, the switch to different tools in the development stream, the switch in formats with Office—all of it presented different roadblocks for the team, and we wanted to make sure we could address all of those issues.

If you look at the release history of Office for Windows vs. Office for Mac you’ll find that the Mac version is typically released 6 to 8 months after the Windows version. Office 2008 is going to be one of the longest delays between the Windows and Mac versions coming in almost a year after-the-fact. Technically it is a year and two months if you count when Office 2007 was released to businesses.

Current Mac users will need to use a file converter that Microsoft offers if they want to open Office 2007 documents. However, that only handles Word and PowerPoint documents.

Alright…I’ll close things up with some screenshots from Office 2008 running on a Mac. These were taken back in January, so some things have probably changes since then:

Source: Ars Technica and TUAW

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What better way to show your contempt for the mail-order set of “classics” on your bookshelf than burning through their hearts with a Lightsaber? After all, if you’re never going to read Moby Dick or Ulysses, you might at least make them useful.

Now you can, with the glowing Lightsaber book-ends from the Star Wars shop. The Lightsaber doesn’t really spear through the books, although judging from the photos it does turn at least part of them into a clammy mess of scrambled egg. That’s not quite fair: the photos show a prototype, so the final shipping version should look (hopefully) a little more like molten metal, and the light part will glow via battery-powered lamps.

No amount of the Force will help you keep track of your place in the books however. Now, at least, you can say “This is not the page I’m looking for.” $50, ships March 31st. Move along.

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We’re past mid-March and rapidly approaching the early Q2 launch estimates for the Android 2.1 update for HTC’s Hero. Now Engadget Chinese has tipped us to an official HTC release date issued on Plurk (a very popular, local Twitter-like social service) in HTC’s home country of Taiwan: April 26th. So we should see the update go hot globally, with the latest version of the Sense UI in tow, at about the same time. You know, if you haven’t grown tired of waiting and already hacked it in.

HTC Hero update to Android 2.1 on April 26th in home country of Taiwan originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 26 Mar 2010 07:11:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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When we got some hands-on time with the recently announced Samsung Galaxy S, it was painfully apparent that the thing has some serious power under the hood. Now we have a better idea of just how much power, with reports indicating that it has the graphics oomph (thanks to its PowerVR SGX540 GPU) to push 90 million triangles per second. Compare that to the Snapdragon platform, which manages 22 million polygons, and the iPhone 3GS’s 28 million from the earlier SGX535, and you get a feel for the muscle lurking behind that gorgeous Super AMOLED screen. Of course, polygon counts aren’t everything when it comes to graphical power these days, and 300 million triangles won’t help you if your handset gets laggy after you install every single Bejeweled clone in the Android Market, but forgive us if we’re a little excited about the rapidly brewing mobile GPU war.

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Samsung’s Galaxy S has four times the polygon power of Snapdragon originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 26 Mar 2010 06:41:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Good to see the i MiEV is adding to its résumé — which already includes the job of ferrying Geek Squaddies about the place — with a new position as a specialist taxi service in select districts of Tokyo. Launched yesterday, this new Zero Taxi initiative aims to attract customers with its zero emissions (from the car, the electricity used might still be produced in a polluting way) appeal, aromatic oil-scented cabin, and primarily female drivers who’ll be trained to provide local area and tourist info. We’re just reporting here, don’t blame us for the Hinomaru Limousine Company’s belief that a man can’t be as good a tour guide as a woman. It’s a humble beginning since the company’s only deploying two i MiEVs for now, but local competitor Nihon Kotsu is also preparing to join the fray, and is currently testing out a Better Place battery-swapping station that should keep its cars where they need to be — on the road.

Mitsubish i MiEV gets a job as an oil-scented taxi in Tokyo originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 26 Mar 2010 06:21:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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