Microsoft on Friday released its long awaited Office for Mac 2011 to manufacturing, in line with its expected release date before the holiday shopping season--some time in late October. The company, which has been working on the next-generation Office suite for the Mac for nearly two and a half years, said that the newest version of Office Mac users will be its "best release yet," bringing new features such as a new template gallery, reintroduced Visual Basic support, much improved Outlooksupport with Outlook for the Mac, connections with online Microsoft services, an
