Craig's Musings

I've been silent on this blog the past couple of months. Like a lot of folks on the Mac Office team, I was working 12 hour days, so blogging fell to the wayside. I hope to be a little more frequent going forward, although with our launch at Macworld next month and a bunch of corporate stuff that I deferred to next quarter, my time isn't looking any more "free" the next few months.

Blogging woes aside, the good news is that we released to manufacturing last Wednesday. Hoo-freakin'-ray! And even more good news is that as of Friday, a fair number of boxes were already assembled and we are ahead of where we need to be at to have boxes in the hands of our distributors. Boxes go off to our various distributors late December/early January and then bam! On the shelves in the U.S. & Canada on January 15th. U.K. English, Japanese and French (other than Canada, who get it on the 15th) will be available January 16th, with other languages following throughout the quarter. If going to your favorite store on the 15th/16th it isn't your style, you can preorder it from your favorite online retailer (avoid the lines AND simplify your work, baby! )

Here are some pictures from around our halls (the whole set is here). You'll see similar signage (we've tweaked the language a little on some of these) at Macworld in January, if you go. See ya later!