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mat — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 19:03:01 GMT

is there an ETA for the international versions?

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JonYo — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 07:45:57 GMT

You won't be the only one wearing your energy dome, trust me! I'll be wearing mine, and I know a whole bunch of other excited Devo fans that will be wearing theirs! I might have to go an extra step and wear my yellow Devo Tyvek® radiation suit, circa 1978...

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Andre Da Costa — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 18:55:31 GMT

I always thought the Radiation Domes were flower pots. Anyway, I am from Jamaica, don't know a lot about DEVO except for the Whip It song.

Congrats on successfully completing the release of Office 2008. Sounds like your launch festivities will be a blast, wish I could be there.

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netguy — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 22:41:09 GMT

Can't wait for the new products to land on the shelves and with any luck Entourage will take on more of MS Outlooks characteristics and then SOME I'm sure. Thanks for the hard work and listening.

KUDOS - Mac Mojo

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R. Perrier — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 08:29:40 GMT

Hi There,

We're pretty excited to see Office 2008 for Mac get released. I am wondering whether January 15 is also the release date for Office 2008 for Mac in Canada? or just the US?

Cheers,

R. Perrier

Thunder Bay, ON

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R. Waldram — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 19:33:21 GMT

Office 2008 is on amazon.co.uk for pre-order from 16th-great!

Roger

Peterborough

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Devo Fan — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 21:47:14 GMT

Excellent - I am so chuffed to of finally met someone who knows a lot about macs. Being an avid mac fan, may I ask you what enterprise level exchange client you can recommend me?

I hear entourage is great, Can you give me the low-down? This Mac Mojo blog has not mentioned it very much at all.

Thankyou, and look forward to your reply.

Devo Fan

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Jim — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 04:25:10 GMT

How can this be shipped without VBA support?

I've been looking forward to moving from a PowerPC version to an Intel-native version of Office, but it looks like I'm stuck with the old version for the foreseeable future, because Office without VBA is useless. If I was to switch to Office 2008, I wouldn't be able to use many of the documents that are part of our daily workflow.

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Emma (MacBU-er not logged in) — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 07:50:42 GMT

R. Perrier

Hello, Office 2008 for Mac will be available on January 16th in Canada (both French and English).

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cg — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 09:29:21 GMT

Exciting!

Will PowerPoint get path-based animation anytime soon? This feature is really really useful and has been on the Windows PowerPoint since around 2000.

Thanks!

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jen_chan, writer surefirewealth.com — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 18:17:19 GMT

Now here's a fan if I ever saw one. I'm not really familiar with their songs but I do know the band and I think anyone would recognize that head gear thing. Anyway, 2008 sounds like an exciting year for everybody who loves mac. I can't wait to see what these next few months are going to reveal.

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Chris George — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 20:57:09 GMT

Any update as to a firm date that we will be able to download from the Licensing website?

(Please say "January 16," not "sometime in first quarter" or "on or after February 1")

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NotHappyAboutEntourage — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 01:31:47 GMT

...or in the case of Entourage 2008 it could be "Ship it, Ship it mediocre... with no support for server-based notes, tasks, categories, read receipts, etc., etc., etc..."

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Wagner Tavares — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 18:35:17 GMT

This could be a great product. Unfortunatelly without VBA macro support I will not get it. I can`t believe how could you do such mistake!

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Steve — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 16:33:01 GMT

Looking forward to Office 08, but any chance you guys can port MICROSOFT MONEY to the Mac? Quicken for the Mac might be the least attractive of any application ever ported to the platform, and MONEY looks to be pretty self-contained within a dhtml-like framework. There are more Mac/Parallels-or-VMWare/Money users than you can possibly imagine.

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Spudboy — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 05:19:06 GMT

Salutations Pat.

Are you able to use your Devolved powers to get Devo to play in Australia at a similar spudtacular function?

Now that would be spudlicious.

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Chris — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 00:58:37 GMT

So how does this work?

$249 in the States for Office 2008 upgrade

http://store.apple.com/AppleStore/WebObjects/BizCustom?qprm=78313&node=home/mac/campaigns/ms_office_2008_landing&cid=AOS-AM-116246-C0004904-A10000085870&Email_PageName=AOS-AM-MSOffice-SBPro&Email_OID=185045&cp=116246&sr=em

and

£219 in the UK for Office 2008 Upgrade.

http://store.apple.com/Apple/WebObjects/ukstore?node=home/mac/campaigns/ms_office_2008_landing&cid=OAS-EMEA-KWG-UK_Software-UK&aosid=p202&esvt=GOUKB101082437&esvadt=999999-0-1021924-1&esvid=100587

I just don't understand - that's almost double the price!

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Shirey — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 10:33:02 GMT

Hi Is there a way that I can upgrade to Office 2008 since I just bought Office 2004 in December, 2007 for my new macbook? I didn't know a new version was coming out so soon. I am disappointed that I bought in December.

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macmanwa — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 10:35:16 GMT

what in the heck did you do to the Mactopia site!!!! It is horrible! All the content is gone!!!

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W Lane — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 12:46:44 GMT

Many/most of the links on the MS Mac home page are broken. What is up with that?

Shame on you!

Hans Dijkstra — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 16:31:15 GMT

I just bought the iMAC, an expensive but beautiful machine.

I got the test version of Office with it.

What a disappointment, this version does not allow me to print my documents.

Why?

regards,

Hans

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Daisy Meeker — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 19:22:22 GMT

I bought a new mac and office mac 2004. I was told about the Super Sweet deal. I would like to receive the 2008 Office but am having trouble finding the info so that I can sign up for it. Can you give me the link for the form? Thanks!

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WayneWalczak — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 00:30:45 GMT

Is this Office 2008 the replacement or is it something new which will be required??? The test version has expired and am about to buy some or all of the things in the office package, but am confused about what I need to do now. Thank you

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Dave — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 00:43:43 GMT

Hey All! I have seen the official release date for Office 2008 for Mac, and I am wondering if this release date is applicable for all of the various channels that Mac Office will be available through, i.e. OEM, Retail, and Volume Licensing. Can anyone speak to whether or not Mac Office 2008 will be made available to all of these channels on the 15th? Thanks!

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Pat Fox — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 02:55:48 GMT

Thanks for all the comments and questions! Clearly some of you have devolved faster than others!

A few general responses and a few specific ones, too.

Office 2008 for Mac - this is a *new version* of Office for Mac. It is an upgrade to Office 2004 for Mac. Retail availability in Japan and parts of Europe will be January 15th and January 16th. Other parts of Europe and the world for that matter will be later in January and into February and March. Look for details on the local Microsoft web site or consult your local reseller.

If you own a previous version of Office for Mac (or any of the standalone apps), you likely qualify for upgrade pricing. If you purchased Office 2004 for Mac in the last two months, you likely qualify for our technology guarantee program that will enable to you to get Office 2008 for a nominal fee, and in some cases Office 2008 Special Media Edition! See here http://download.microsoft.com/download/F/B/0/FB087329-3E5A-4347-967C-64E7D8B95BD2/MacOffice_SuperSuiteDeal.pdf for details for North America. For Europe, details can be found here https://om.one.microsoft.com/opa/Validation.aspx?StoreID=a202086b-34db-40a7-8dea-5a22102c6690&LocaleCode=en-us&JavaScriptOn=yes.

Apologies for broken links recently on the Mactopia home page (www.microsoft.com/mac/). We have a significant update to the site in the works and our great web team is in the middle of the transition. Hopefully the links to the redemption forms above will address most of the urgent issues.

The test drive version of Office 2004 that comes free with some Macs has some features disabled (i.e. printing) and a timeout to prevent spuds from using it indefinitely. The advanced marketing theory behind this is "free trial" with the hope that people will like it enough to purchase their very own copy. My apologies if this has lead to some disappointment.

Hope to see you all at Macworld!

Pat O

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Niels — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 10:42:24 GMT

For a trail, why can't you do it like Apple does with it's Office Suite? Give a 30 day full trail version? Isn't that simpler? In that way we could test the office suite completely!

Kind regards!

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Generallud — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 17:52:35 GMT

OK: I just got a mac mini with the 2004 test drive on it. When you are willing to tell me up front how much it costs without having to jump thru hoops, i may consider it.

The General

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jose ceo — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 22:16:33 GMT

at the moment i'm not interested im buying this. thank you j

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Brian Hunt — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 02:21:27 GMT

As previous posters have enquired, will this be available for download via MSDN Volume Licensing from Jan 15/16? I can't find any solid information anywhere as to an exact date for this.

Regards

Brian J. Hunt

London, UK

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Shigeo Kobayashi — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 13:15:49 GMT

My problem is the same one as "Shame on you"by Hans.

Please tell me how to buy Office 2004 after using Test version.

I cannot access to a shopping page?

Regards.

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UK Sheffield — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 14:25:26 GMT

being a loyal Mac addict I do appreciate Microsoft's minor contribution to the computing age. However I find it insulting having to pay TWICE as much for it in the UK. Can anyone please give me a valid reason for this?

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M.alali — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 17:58:47 GMT

I am very disappointed again, that the new Office 2008 which is made for mac os DOES NOT SUPPORT ARABIC :(

What a shame by MS and MAC.

Although MS office versions on Win always supports arabic.

and even though Mac os supports arabic third parties application fluently.

I really need the an answer, why ?????

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Stephen Dane — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 20:36:55 GMT

I must say I am extremely disappointed in your customer service and website(s). I find hardly any information about Microsoft Office for the mac and it appears it's impossible to order a trial version. Also, I can't find how you can purchase and download this new product. Do I have to order it and have it shipped. I think in this day and age that is plain stupid. I've given up on the purchase of this product.

Stephen Dane, Sr. Vice-President and General Manager

Brill USA

hmmm

macmend — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 13:38:05 GMT

I imagine I will get a copy so I can keep ahead of all the problems it will cause.

Is it lighter, faster, takes up less room? Has entourage improved?

we'll see

macmend

www.macmend.com

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Jordan Burger — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 16:30:35 GMT

In regards to purchasing a copy you will need to visit for the time being the Apple online store and search for Microsoft Office:mac 2004 or if your interested in the 2008 model, which due to the fact that it will be available by the time your 2004 copy arrives, unless you buy it from a Apple Store, 2008 would already be available why not wait for 2008's release.

Hope this helps,

Jordan B.

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sherjo — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 19:10:26 GMT

Devo-Obsesso has posted a great review of the party at http://www.devo-obsesso.com/html/news_pgs/macworld08.html with tons of pictures.

This was one Macworld party not to be missed or forgotten. Hope some of you had a chance to join us!