Microsoft's Mactopia site offline this AM

Due to what we sincerely hope is a temporary technical glitch and not a policy decision, the Mactopia (microsoft.com/mac) site is inaccessible this morning; downloads pages are also offline, although the Office for Mac forums and blog are still coming up as expected and the Mac section of the main MS downloads area is available. Thanks to reader Matt for the tip, and thanks to commenters below reporting that the German version of the site is still up.

It's still the middle of the night at the MacBU offices, but if anyone can shed light on the problem we would appreciate it.

Update: The MacBU's Andy Ruff reports that he's looking into the issue.

Update II: It's back.

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Due to what we sincerely hope is a temporary technical glitch and not a policy decision, the Mactopia (microsoft.com/mac) site is...

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macxprt

It would be great if they brought back VB support for the Mac. Without it, macros will not run. We use Excel for our job ticketing and the spreadsheets use macros quite heavily. We have been unable to upgrade to Office 2008 because of this. I am sure Microsoft has lost quite a bit of business due this exclusion.

January 28 2009 at 1:36 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Polo

Entourage for Exchange Services update .., Entourage for Exchange Services update .., Entourage for Exchange Services update !..

January 28 2009 at 1:21 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Tracy

It's not just Mactopia... It is EVERYthing Mac related. Temporary technical glitch? Right... Uh huh.

January 28 2009 at 12:41 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

elDaz2

The Blog DOES work :

http://www.officeformac.com/blog/

Stange isn't it ?! Maybe the Blog is hosted on another server ...

January 28 2009 at 9:41 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Zimzim

Hopefully this is the end of MS products on Mac. This would stimulate development of applications made by companies with a far more mac orientated development style. Every time I use something by Microsoft it goes around throwing fonts and files around without asking me or informing me what it's up to. Startup times are laughable, and the interfaces never conform to OSX guidelines.

January 28 2009 at 9:32 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

cwinata

I'll be damned if they release Office 2009; Just bought Office 2008

January 28 2009 at 8:38 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Jash Sayani

Accordint to Ballmer, they are using that server for Windows 7 beta. As time is running out and downloads are hitting back!

January 28 2009 at 8:22 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Stewart

This seems to be working too!

http://www.microsoft.com/uk/mac/default.mspx

January 28 2009 at 7:49 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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Even the Italian version of the site is still up.