Microsoft Launches Free 30-Day Trials of Office 2011
Microsoft today announced that it has launched free 30-day trial licenses for Office for Mac 2011, offering users the ability to test drive the popular productivity suite before committing to a purchase.
If you're still thinking about Office 2011, I'm happy to announce we now have a full trial available at www.microsoft.com/mac/trial, free to use for 30-days after download. We know it's important for some of you to be able to test out new features. For those that will be trying the suite for the first time, we hope you enjoy some of the new items - Outlook for Mac, new co-authoring tools, Excel's Sparklines, Dynamic Reorder in Word & PowerPoint, and more.
Office Senior Director of Product Management Pat Fox also notes that sales of Office for Mac 2011 since the new version debuted in late October have exceeded the company's internal sales goals so far.For those who have already decided to purchase the suite or who opt to do so after giving the trial version a test, Amazon offers discounts on all Office packages:
- Office Mac Home Student 2011 - 1 Pack ($99.99)
- Office Mac Home Student Family Pack 2011 ($124.25)
- Microsoft Office for Mac Home and Business 2011 - 1 Pack ($174.99)
- Office Mac Home Business Multi Pack 2011 ($228.43)
Note: Purchases through these links financially benefit this site.
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17 months ago
30 day trial for a slow version of Office. Just enough time for you to realize you should buy iWork from the App Store.
17 months ago
Office 2011 is pretty decent, but certainly not for the price. For 99% of everything Pages and the rest of iWork is more then plenty. However, for professional settings maintaining cross platform compatibility 2011 is helpful. Basically, I'd say it's good for business clients, but not so much for students and your average user.
Still a 30day trial is a good thing. PC's have had it for Office for a while now...
Still a 30day trial is a good thing. PC's have had it for Office for a while now...
17 months ago
This story has the word 'Microsoft' in the title, therefore I am compelled to make a derogatory remark about MS and how awful anything they have ever done is.
Alternatively, I could actually read this article and point out what a good idea offering a 30 day trial is and that MS Office for Mac is a good piece of software.
Alternatively, I could actually read this article and point out what a good idea offering a 30 day trial is and that MS Office for Mac is a good piece of software.
17 months ago
If it's not on the Mac App Store, I'm not buying it. I don't want Microsoft scattering files all over my computer. :eek:
17 months ago
open office (libreoffice) is so much better than ms office thou iwork is the greatest office suit there is.
17 months ago
I only got office because I was able to get it for $89 because of the student discount. NOrmal price was $279 since it includes Outlook.
17 months ago
Okay.
1. How on earth is this page 1 news?
2. Why on earth did it take m$ so long to release a trial version?
1. How on earth is this page 1 news?
2. Why on earth did it take m$ so long to release a trial version?
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