Mac Mojo: The Office for Mac Team Blog - Solver For Excel 2008 Is Available!

Mac Mojo: The Office for Mac Team Blog - Solver For Excel 2008 Is Available! http://www.officeformac.com/ms/blog What's that? What's that you say? You said you want to spend your Labor Day weekend creating exotic, elaborate optimization models with Excel 2008? You said, "If only Solver was available for Excel 2008, I could get the jump on that crazy capacity-planning problem for my fall MBA class!" Well, do I have some great news for you. Just in time for the long weekend (and a little ahead of the promised "mid-September" delivery date), our friends at <a href="http://www.solver.com">Frontline Systems</a> have released <a href="http://www.solver.com/mac">Solver for Excel 2008</a>. You can get Solver as a <a href="http://www.solver.com/mac/dwnmacsolver.htm">free download</a> from the Frontline Web site (<a href="http://www.solver.com/mac">www.solver.com/mac</a>); which, at less than 2 MB, should be a lightning-fast experience for just about everyone. (Please note that Solver for Excel 2008 requires <a href="http://support.microsoft.com/kb/956344">Excel 12.1.2</a>, so if you have yet to update your copy of Office 2008, now would be a good time to run <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/mac/help.mspx?CTT=PageView&clr=99-0-0&ep=7&target=ffe35357-8f25-4df8-a0a3-c258526c64ea1033">Microsoft AutoUpdate</a> or <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/mac/downloads.mspx">visit the download page on Mactopia</a>.) My <a href="http://www.officeformac.com/blog/Solver-For-Excel-2008--Available-By-Mid-September">previous post on Solver and Excel 2008</a> contained the 411 about how to install and use this new version of Solver, so I won't re-post that here. Instead, I thought people might want to know some of the system and support information for the product. Solver for Excel 2008: <ul>     <li>Runs on PowerPC or Intel systems;</li>     <li>Works with Mac OS X 10.4.11 ("Tiger"), Mac OS X 10.5.4 ("Leopard") or later;</li>     <li>Is available in English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Dutch and Swedish;</li>     <li>Requires Excel 2008 v. 12.1.2 or later.</li> </ul> I've been using Solver for Excel 2008 during its development, and I think Solver users will be delighted with what Frontline has created. The Mac Excel team has been working closely with our colleagues at Frontline for the past several months, and I'm confident that the product they've produced will make a lot of our mutual customers very, very happy. Happy downloading, everybody! Wed, 10 Sep 2008 23:09:57 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