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We got an integrated e-mail and calendaring system at work, last week: Exchange. I suppose it does what it needs to for corporate communications. But with Exchange comes Entourage: Microsoft's interface for Mac OS. Unfortunately, Entourage 2004 looks like a refugee from the East German 1976 Summer Olympics team. It didn't run like them, though. It ran like a one-legged man in a treacle factory.
And this was my good fortune, it led to me getting one of our few copies of Office 2008, which is treacle free. But what's really good about it isn't that it's faster than Office 2004. The best thing about is that it looks good. It's clearly had some very serious hard work on the user interface and a beautiful visual overhaul.
Part of that overhaul is a new font in Word: Cambria. It's a lovely looking font that's very easy to read on a screen and makes writing so much nicer. I have a lot of writing to do in the next few weeks and I think this will help make it that little bit easier.
