Office for Mac 2008 coming for Enterprise on Feb 1

I asked the manager of my campus store and he said "a couple of months" which sounds alot like the end of the semester to me...probably april as stated above.

To those of you with pub folders - get over it. MS is killing support for these in the next Exchange. 2007 Exchange is already a HUGE PITA to manage them, and in the famous language of MS - Public folders are being de-emphasized. Love that wording. Sounds like something Hillary Clinton would say - to anything. But, that's politics.

I'm really POd that MS is not releasing this to enterprise. As an EA holder (and direct manager of the account) I had to get mine from a less than legit site. No way I'm dumping $500 for something I already pay over $300,000 per year for. Not even $50 would be right.

Aggrevated that the Mac is a second class MS citizen all around. Someone PLEASE write a proper Exchange client.

Sounds like the people MS has on the show floor know more than the people back in Redmond. When we emailed the Home Use Program, they replied "We do not know when or if Mac Office 2008 will be available." This was on the 17th, two days after it was available to consumers.

I called the ITS department at Vanderbilt University and the woman I spoke with also confirmed Feb. 1 fwiw.

I believe the University of Minnesota website said right around February 16th for our licensed copies for students.

so wait...they do vista enterprise and office 2007 enterprise 2 months before it goes retail but do office for mac one month after retail? way to care about your mac constituency, M$.

This explains why it's marked "First week of February" in the Indiana University software download site too.

http://iuware.iu.edu/title.aspx?id=755

Any idea if it supports calendars in public folders?

Newbie question - does ntourage 2008 not support/allow access to exchange public folders then?

Thank you so much for answering this question... Feb 1 is still way to long in my opinion, but at least its a solid answer.

Just makes me wonder why releasing this to Enterprise customers will be much later than in the stores... they've NEVER done this with Office for Windows. Guess we are still just second class citizens in the eyes of M$.