It would be remiss of me after writing my earlier article about Microsoft’s lack of transparency not to refer to the latest posting on the blog of the Mac Business Unit (the department in Microsoft which writes software for the Mac). You’ll remember that I complained (and I wasn’t the only one) about the lack of real information being made available, especially about the support for Exchange servers in the forthcoming release of Microsoft Office for the Mac.

The Mac Business Unit has apparently taken notice:

On the serious side, one of the themes I found could be summarized as “more transparency, more data”. That is the goal of this blog and we are working towards that. While we can’t answer every question in real time, we are listening and we are using that feedback to inform our decisions—and we really appreciate the dialog.

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The overwhelming request was “EXCHANGE!” We hear you, and we know this is super important to a lot of folks, and it is important to us too—like the rest of Microsoft, we use Exchange here in MacBU.

The next step is of course for them to come up with some solid information about the way in which Exchange servers will be handled in Mac Office 2008…