Ms gives Business office to get Apple next year to be able to TechNet MSDN clients

'microsoft office 2011'’s latest Business release is now available for download by TechNet and MSDN members! (As my colleague Mary Jo Foley noted earlier today, it’s also been released pertaining to retail price sale!) Normally, that’s not news! What makes this release different is that it’s to get Business pertaining to Apple pc Home and office 2011! This is the first time in my memory that any Apple pc-related business software has been available through the standard versions of either subscription! (The only exceptions I can find are two old, pre-Boot Camp versions of Virtual PC pertaining to the Macintosh personal computer!) I have both a Macintosh and a office 2011 mac on my desktop and plan so that you can set them up side by side using Synergy in order to share the mouse and keyboard seamlessly (if the software works as described)! If you have a TechNet subscription, you’ll find the Workplace pertaining to Apple pc 2011 download under the Applications heading! For now, at least, it’s also under New Downloads! (To learn more about TechNet and MSDN, see this article from last year: Seven perfectly legal ways for you to get Windows 7 cheap (or even free)!) Update: I’ve just completed the installation of the Workplace software on my Apple! Everything went fine until I tried in order to claim a product key for the product! The Downloads page says I’m entitled to 5 products intended for the Retail version of the product! But clicking the Get button so that you can acquire the first product key doesn’t work in Safari on a Apple! I’m not sure whether this is a temporary glitch or whether some TechNet accounts are blocked from activatiing the software! Meanwhile, I have 30 days of trial usage (complete with nag screens at startup)! Update 27-Oct: This glitch seems to be fixed, and the TechNet system is now generating product keys properly! For MSDN customers, the picture might be more complicated! MSDN comes in a very wide range of editions at a very wide range of prices! My account type is listed as Visual Studio Professional with MSDN account! Those are all pricey products! There’s a pretty good case to get non-developers to be able to prefer TechNet [Standard or Professional] over the lower levels of MSDN! I’ve just downloaded the Place of work next year package and I’m looking forward in order to using it in more detail! That won’t be soon, though, as I’m headed off to be able to PDC10 tomorrow and I don’t have a MacBook handy!