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Anonymous
Dec 21, 2007
10:54pm
Geek Lectures - Things geeks should know about » Blog Archive » Ship It, Ship It Good
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Anonymous
Dec 22, 2007
12:03pm
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is there an ETA for the international versions?
Anonymous
Dec 24, 2007
12:45am
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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...
Anonymous
Dec 27, 2007
11:55am
re: Ship It, Ship It Good
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.
Anonymous
Jan 01, 2008
3:41pm
re: Ship It, Ship It Good
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
Anonymous
Jan 02, 2008
1:29am
re: Ship It, Ship It Good
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
Anonymous
Jan 03, 2008
12:33pm
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Office 2008 is on amazon.co.uk for pre-order from 16th-great!
Roger
Peterborough
UK
Anonymous
Jan 03, 2008
2:47pm
re: Ship It, Ship It Good
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
Anonymous
Jan 03, 2008
9:25pm
re: Ship It, Ship It Good
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.
Anonymous
Jan 04, 2008
12:50am
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R. Perrier
Hello, Office 2008 for Mac will be available on January 16th in Canada (both French and English).
Anonymous
Jan 04, 2008
2:29am
re: Ship It, Ship It Good
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!
Anonymous
Jan 04, 2008
11:17am
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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.
Anonymous
Jan 04, 2008
1:57pm
re: Ship It, Ship It Good
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")
Anonymous
Jan 04, 2008
6:31pm
re: Ship It, Ship It Good
...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..."
Anonymous
Jan 05, 2008
11:35am
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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!
Anonymous
Jan 06, 2008
1:49am
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One of the few tickets left? Dang, can't find a way to pre-order, but hopefully I'll see you guys there anyway!
Anonymous
Jan 06, 2008
7:54am
de-contenting
With the loss now of VBA ... and with the code still mostly Carbon (not Cocoa) which hinders performance ... the unfortunate reality is that the 2008 may be a step forward in Eye candy, but several steps backwards in actual business productivity.
This inconsistency to the Windows 2007 version is yet another example of the Mac BU not being allowed to be on an equal competitive footing. Afterall, if it is a security issue anywhere, its a security issue everywhere and needs to be "All or Nothing".
Disappointed yet again,
-hh
Anonymous
Jan 07, 2008
1:30am
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Greetings, Congrats on MSO2k8 release. Should rock! Speaking of which that's cool that your hosting (exclusively) the MacBlast Party. I want to go, I had already registered and did not pay for it, but after I read your post, I thought, Devo! cool. So I clicked on the link and there is no way for me to buy a ticket once I registered. Lame System they have there, I'll be blogging about that, speaking of which, I'll be coming by to blog from your blog station. I did video podcasts as well last year from there. check out http://web.mac.com/jimteece/MacWorld_2007/MacWorld_Podcast/MacWorld_Podcast.html to see our videos. We hope to do the same again this year, thanks again for hosting us bloggers. See you in a week.
Anonymous
Jan 08, 2008
9:33am
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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.
Anonymous
Jan 08, 2008
10:19pm
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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.
Anonymous
Jan 09, 2008
5:58pm
re: Ship It, Ship It Good
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!
Anonymous
Jan 11, 2008
3:33am
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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.
Anonymous
Jan 11, 2008
3:35am
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what in the heck did you do to the Mactopia site!!!! It is horrible! All the content is gone!!!
Anonymous
Jan 11, 2008
5:10am
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Great!Thanks for your hard work!
May I ask you a question?
Once I used "Word" of "office2008 for Mac beta" to make a file,I have a trouble.
First,I finished the file,it concluded words and tables,I saved it as "office2000-2003" format,and then my workmates opened it with office 2003(in windows XP system),we found the file's format has changed.For example,I made it with 50 pages in Mac,and it turned 55 pages in XP.I want to know how to solve it?
Thanks!
Sword Lee
swordlee001@yahoo.com.cn
Anonymous
Jan 11, 2008
5:46am
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Many/most of the links on the MS Mac home page are broken. What is up with that?
Anonymous
Jan 11, 2008
9:28am
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Does anyone know how to confirm that MS has received my submission for the super suite deal? I had bought office 2004 just for that reason and I thought I would get an e-mail response when they received it.
I shipped it out mid december.
Thanks!
Scott
Anonymous
Jan 11, 2008
9:31am
Shame on you!
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
Anonymous
Jan 11, 2008
12:22pm
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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!
Anonymous
Jan 11, 2008
5:30pm
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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
Anonymous
Jan 11, 2008
5:43pm
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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!
Pat Fox
Jan 11, 2008
7:55pm
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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
Anonymous
Jan 11, 2008
11:17pm
huangyun_22222@hotmail.com
Anonymous
Jan 12, 2008
1:56am
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I have ordered office 2004 , but it won't arrive until after January 14. Am I eligible for the Super Suite Deal?
Anonymous
Jan 12, 2008
3:42am
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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!
Anonymous
Jan 12, 2008
4:58am
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When will Office 2008 be downloadable from MSDN Developer Website? I have a prof. subsription and I need it in German. Unfortunately the MSDN website can only be user with IE and IE is not working with may mac and firefox.
Anonymous
Jan 12, 2008
10:52am
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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
Anonymous
Jan 12, 2008
11:11am
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Hi,
i dont know if anyone can help me. i sell mac product, and i have customers that tell me that office mac is out right now. i've check, and stapple in montreal sell the damn software today. where i can report this ?
Anonymous
Jan 12, 2008
3:16pm
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at the moment i'm not interested im buying this. thank you j
Anonymous
Jan 12, 2008
7:21pm
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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
Anonymous
Jan 13, 2008
6:15am
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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.
Anonymous
Jan 14, 2008
7:25am
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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?
Anonymous
Jan 14, 2008
10:58am
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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 ?????
Anonymous
Jan 14, 2008
1:36pm
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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
Anonymous
Jan 14, 2008
3:09pm
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How do you share excel workbooks containing macro's between Office 2008 for Mac and Office 2007 for PC? Do I understand correctly that macro's are no longer compatible between mac and pc versons of excel? If true what a blunder...
Anonymous
Jan 14, 2008
4:12pm
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What happened to the online redemption form? I can't find a link to it anywhere!
Anonymous
Jan 14, 2008
7:04pm
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First of all I would like to Congrats Macbu for the launching of your new MAC OFFICE. I just bought my first Macbook and have no installed office yet.
I would like to maximize the use by getting the latest version of Office software. Please send me the best deal so that I can purchase for my Macbook.
Philippines
Anonymous
Jan 14, 2008
9:56pm
No macro support? No way!
No way I'm getting this one without macro support.
In fact, I'm not even using the 2004 version, since the 2001 release is faster and less buggier.
In four years, you still have not fixed the differences in word counts observed in version 2004 (they differ from any other Windows and Mac versions). For instance, it does not count a line break as a word separator. So Word 2004 cannot be trusted to count words? Puhleaze!
Anonymous
Jan 14, 2008
10:20pm
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When will it be available in New Zealand please? Or is it better to order it on Amazon.com?
If on Amazon do you know the ETA?
I have just moved to a Apple Macbook and the Office 2004 I am using is not a great experience when you have Office 2007 - it lacks basic features.
Umm if I could have the Office 2008 by the end of the month I'd be the happiest new Mac user.
Cheers,
Donna
Anonymous
Jan 15, 2008
6:38am
hmmm
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
Anonymous
Jan 15, 2008
9:30am
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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.
Sheridan Jones
Feb 06, 2008
12:10pm
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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!