http://www.officeformac.com/ms/blog <p>UPDATE (5/19): The Office 2008 for Mac Trial is now live in the&nbsp;<a href="http://www.microsoft.com/uk/mac">UK</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="http://www.microsoft.com/ireland/mac">Ireland</a>!</p> <p>Many of us like to try something before we decide to buy. And with today's launch of the downloadable <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/mac/products/office2008/trial-download.mspx">Office 2008 for Mac Trial</a>, MacBU is giving our customers the option of trying out Office 2008 for 30 days: fully functional, no strings attached. It runs side-by-side with earlier versions of Office, and when your 30 days is up, you have the choice to either purchase a copy from your local Apple retailer or <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/mac/products/office2008/shop-now.mspx">buy a product key from Mactopia online</a> and be up and running without reinstalling.<br /> <br> <br /> <br> Haven&rsquo;t yet tried professional templates in Word&rsquo;s Publishing Layout View? Still waiting to try OfficeArt tools, where you get reflections, shading, color themes and 3D tools in Word, Excel and Powerpoint? Or made professional-looking visual charts and diagrams in seconds with SmartArt ? Now you can see it firsthand. And it&rsquo;s on us.<br /> <br> &nbsp;<br /> <br> On top of that, the version that you can download and try today is our most up-to-date, chock-full of more than a year of improvements and enhancements that we've delivered since we shipped Office 2008.<br /> <br> &nbsp;<br /> <br> Why now? While we decided to ship Office 2008 without a trial, and have been heads-down working on the next version of Office for the Mac, many of you rightly demanded the option of kicking the tires and trusting yourself to decide whether Office 2008 was right for you. For those of you with more questions, I encourage you to read our <a href="http://try.officeformac.com/store/msmactus/DisplayHelpPage">trial FAQ</a>&nbsp;and <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/mac/videos.mspx">check out our tutorials and training videos</a>.&nbsp;</p> <p>If you haven't gotten around to trying Office 2008, <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/mac/products/office2008/trial-download.mspx">download the trial today</a>. I think you'll like what you find.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> Sat, 30 May 2009 00:05:30 GMT Web Crossing(r) Unix-v6.4 built Jan 14 2010 18:50:13 (source:1372 2010-01-14 15:39:31 -0800)/Unix-6.4 (http://webcrossing.com/) http://backend.userland.com/rss