More than 4,000 educators, students, and IT professionals in higher education from around the world are descending on the Mile-High City for this year’s EDUCAUSE conference from Nov. 3^rd through the 6^th. This year, I am on hand for the MacBU, along with one of our Microsoft Student Partners to showcase the latest and best features of Office 2008 for Mac, including:

-   All-new SharePoint and Office Live Workspace support with Document Connection for the Mac.

-   The newly re-architected Entourage 2008 Web Services Edition, providing robust Exchange connectivity, syncing tasks, notes, and categories, and improved stability and performance.

-   Industry-leading compatibility with Office for Windows, that lets you succeed in school and in the workplace without guessing, importing, or exporting file formats.

Both SharePoint and Exchange have been growing by leaps and bounds in the higher ed community as CIO’s and IT professionals have adopted Microsoft’s Live@EDU hosted Exchange and SharePoint collaboration services, and the Office for Mac team is excited to be a part of EDUCAUSE this year in support of those efforts, and our education customers.

In addition, later this month we’ll be introducing a special offer on Office 2008 for Mac exclusively for college and university students and educators, right here on Mactopia. Stay tuned to this blog for more details, or follow me on twitter (marshallnam) for up-to-the-minute news.

So, if you’re a part of the educational community and are in Denver this year, be sure to stop by and chat one-on-one at the Office for Mac station in the EDUCAUSE Microsoft booth at the Denver Convention Center.

See you there!