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Now that Apple has launched OS X Mountain Lion, Microsoft is confirming that its two Office productivity suite versions for Mac – Office for Mac 2011 and Office 2008 for Mac – are up and ready to support what Apple calls as “the world’s most advanced desktop operating system“. Over at Microsoft’s Office for Mac blog, the team behind the productivity suite is asking Office for Mac users to have the AutoUpdate feature enabled, as it will be needed to make the most of the upgrades to Mountain Lion.

To do this, you can enable AutoUpdate in any Office for Mac application by going to the toolbar, then selecting “Help” and then “Check for Updates.” Microsoft notes that Mountain Lion is outfitted with a new feature called Gatekeeper that helps protect users by allowing them to download and install software from known developers. To keep your Office for Mac updated, Microsoft is recommending that you use Microsoft AutoUpdate, since the updates will not be able to run when you download them on your desktop. Cheers!

By Ubergizmo. Related articles: Microsoft Office 11 for Mac gets a 30-day free trial, Office for Mac 2011 is out,

The current rumor now ramping through the internet is so dumb, so painfully stupid that Steve Jobs must be rolling in his grave: apparently, tons of irreversible imbeciles in Facebook and Twitter are saying that Apple’s Mountain Lion image is based on the Jobs’ biography cover picture, as an homage to Apple’s former leader. More »

Yes, OS X Mountain Lion, the long awaited update to the OS X operating system platform, is now readily available over at the App Store for $20, but is everything hunky dory? Not really, as some users have already reported running into trouble when downloading this particular installer onto their Mac after purchase. There are a few errors recorded, including “This item is temporarily unavailable. Please try again.”, to the ever annoying Error 100 message which is pretty vague in its description, mentioning “We could not complete your App Store request. An unknown error occurred (100).”

Fret not – these errors can definitely be fixed, taking just a few minutes of your life to rectify before everything ends up as plain sailing again. The easy way would be to quit the App Store by signing out of it, restart your Mac and login to the App Store before making another download attempt, but if this does not work, there is a more advanced way of going about it. (more…)

By Ubergizmo. Related articles: Mountain Lion app compatibility list by RoaringApps, Apple releases Mountain Lion gold master to developers, official version on the way?,

OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion is here. You’re probably going to read a lot about all the new features and how Apple’s out of ideas. Here’s a guide to what will make using all that ML stuff easier—and what’s going to make the new OS a pain. More »

Apple’s OS X Mountain Lion is out, and it’s 20 bucks. That’s cheap enough that the price alone probably isn’t a barrier to upgrade—it’s more about your individual needs. Here’s a quick guide to see, at a glance, if you should go with Mountain Lion, or maybe sit this one out. More »