San Francisco Bay Area Mac users needed

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I've just mapped out my research schedule for the next few months, and I've come to a conclusion: I need more Mac users.

In particular, I need Mac users who live in the Bay Area, and who are at least one of the following types of users:

  • PowerPoint users who use PowerPoint in a business setting
  • Entourage users who use Entourage in a business setting (including Entourage users who are on Exchange servers)
  • Office users who share documents with others in a business setting

If you fit into one of these categories, and if you live in the Bay Area and are willing to come visit my team in Mountain View, please sign up to participate in usability studies. When you fill out that form, please make sure that you enter the applications that you use -- when I'm trying to fill a usability study, we first call the people who say that they use the applications I'm looking for. Don't forget to add in non-Microsoft applications that you might use, since I sometimes care about that too! iTunes, iPhoto, Address Book, Photoshop, ... there's lots of non-MS applications that I care about.

In exchange for about two hours of your time, you get to see some early thoughts about our future directions for the next version of Office, and help us shape the future. Additionally, we'll thank you for your time with a gift of Microsoft hardware or software, or a gift certificate.