A couple of weeks ago, OWC Tim touched on the upcoming release of Microsoft Office 2011 for Mac. Along with talking about the new features, it brought up some interesting points, and is probably worth a quick read. Go ahead and check it out – I’ll wait here…
This latest incarnation of Office sounds well…pretty sound. If you need Office compatibility (and who of us in Corporate America doesn’t, these days?) and you haven’t upgraded to Office 2008 already, it’s probably gone through your mind to just hold of on getting Office 2008 and wait for Office 2011 to come out.
That may not be the best idea, after all…if you like getting a good deal.
If you pick up a copy of Office 2008 from OWC now, you are eligible for a free upgrade to Office 2011 when it comes out.
All of a sudden, dropping the cash on the current version seems a lot better: not only do you get the instant gratification of having the software you need right in your hot little hands, but you also can rest easy knowing you’ll be getting the latest and greatest version of Office as soon as it comes out.
That’s a double-win as far as I’m concerned…
“(and who of us in Corporate America doesn’t, these days?)”
Just ‘Corporate America’ as companies outside the US are using OpenOffice and not paying the Microsoft tax.
Some governments even go as far as making it illegal for public documents to be in a proprietary file format. OpenOffice supports the ODF (Open Document Format).
http://www.openoffice.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDocument