Microsoft's Mac Business Unit yesterday posted the first in a series of teaser information releases regarding their forthcoming Office 2008 for Macintosh product. In this first post at Mac Mojo, the MacBU team talks about the unfortunately-acronymed OOF (Out of Facility) feature -- more commonly known as Out of Office. For years now, Mac users have asked for an easy-to-use, flexible tool for setting Out of Office notifications without using Outlook Web. With Office 2008, Microsoft promises to deliver just that. Check out Mac Mojo for full details.

Microsoft continues to cite a December/January time frame for the release of the new version. ITS will work to get Office 2008 to the campus community as quickly as possible following that release.