Free Product Key for Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac
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Download Microsoft office 2011 for Mac (Free Trial) – Yes, you can now download, install and try Office 2011 free for a month (30 days to be precise)! We earlier told you about the Office for mac 2011 release and its enhanced features. Microsoft's Mac Business Unit this week is making available to Mac users a 'fully functional, no strings attached' free trial of Office 2008 so that prospective buyers and users of previous versions can 'kick the tires' on new suite before plunking down the cash for a permanent copy.
If you are not happy with the Apple’s office suite on your Mac, then you also have the choice to move over to Microsoft’s office suite which we fondly call MS Office. Although Apple has included every type of app you want in its Mac, such as Pages to create documents, Numbers to create spreadsheets, and Keynote to create presentations, nothing comes close to the actual MS Office that we are all familiar with for years.
In order to install the Microsoft Office suite on your Mac, you need to first download it from its official website. Once downloaded, you need to install it and then activate using a product key. While all other tasks will run automatically, entering a product key is where you are likely to get stuck if you do not already have a key with yourself.
A product key for the MS Office for your Mac allows you to activate your copy of the Office suite and make it genuine. If you don’t already have a key, you will need to get one first. It can be gotten either from the official Microsoft website or you can get it from other third-party websites.
You only need to use one of these and not all of these. When you get to the screen where it asks you to enter a product key, just enter one of these keys and your copy of the office suite will be activated without any issues.
Extra Tip: How to Find Lost Product Key for Microsoft Office for Mac
If the Microsoft Office suite is already installed and activated on your Mac but you have just misplaced the keys and can’t find them, then what you can do is you can use a key finder app that will help you retrieve the key from your OS and show on your screen.
One of these key finders is called Mac Product Key Finder that helps you find many of the product keys on your Mac. To get started with it, all you have to do is download and install the app on your Mac and you are good to go.
1. Head over to the Mac Product Key Finder website and download and install the free version of the app on your Mac. The free version supports the ability to find a product key for the Microsoft Office 2008.
2. Launch the app once it’s installed on your Mac and let it find product keys. Once it’s done, you will see the following on your screen. You can now read and save the key somewhere else on your machine.
If you like the program and you wish you had something similar for the Windows OS as well, then you are in luck as there’s also an app for Windows called Product Key Recovery that lets you find product keys for many software programs like Microsoft Windows, Office, Visual Studio, SQL Server, Internet Explorer, etc.
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By Slash Lane Tuesday, April 14, 2009, 12:00 pm PT (03:00 pm ET)
Microsoft's Mac Business Unit this week is making available to Mac users a 'fully functional, no strings attached' free trial of Office 2008 so that prospective buyers and users of previous versions can 'kick the tires' on new suite before plunking down the cash for a permanent copy.
The 545 megabyte download is available after a quick registration over at the Redmond-based company's MacTopia website. The registration is required to generate an trial product key that will expire 30 days thereafter. Although Office 2008 for Mac made its debut over a year ago, this is the first time Microsoft has offered customers the option of trying the software before they buy it. The trial copy will run side-by-side with earlier versions of Office and includes a year's worth of maintenance and security improvements. 'The MacBU is aware that a number of customers have wanted to try Office 2008 for Mac before purchasing, and they have been working to make this available in tandem with updates to 2008,' a representative for the software giant told AppleInsider. 'Today customers can now check out Office 2008 with the fixes and performance enhancements that have been made since launch.' Once the 30-day product key expires, users will have the choice to either purchase a copy of the suite from an Apple authorized reseller or buy a product key from Mactopia online and be up and running without reinstalling. Of course, Microsoft fragments the office suite into various versions like it does its Windows operating system. A 'Home and Student Edition' costs $149.95, the standard version is priced at $399.95, and the Special Media Edition fetches 499.95. However, Amazon.com has these same editions listed for $111.99, $240.00, and $224.95, respectively. For a breakdown of what's included in each edition, see this article. Meanwhile, readers interested in familiarizing themselves with Office 2008 and the history of Office without downloading the software may want to check out AppleInsider's six-part series: Road to Mac Office 2008.