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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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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
zerock said 6:52AM on 1-28-2009
maybe they're finally updating messenger for the mac. heh
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Xeon said 7:08AM on 1-28-2009
I think this is because of the Mac Messenger update. I think there was a press release or something about a Messenger Update "very soon" in '09
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JK said 7:39AM on 1-28-2009
It's Entourage for Exchange Web Services.
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dp said 7:43AM on 1-28-2009
It'd be great if it were a Messenger update!
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Hidden said 7:47AM on 1-28-2009
Even the Italian version of the site is still up.
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Joggingbrot said 11:36AM on 1-28-2009
The German site is up and running, too.
Stewart said 7:50AM on 1-28-2009
This seems to be working too!
http://www.microsoft.com/uk/mac/default.mspx
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Jash Sayani said 8:22AM on 1-28-2009
Accordint to Ballmer, they are using that server for Windows 7 beta. As time is running out and downloads are hitting back!
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cwinata said 8:50AM on 1-28-2009
I'll be damned if they release Office 2009; Just bought Office 2008
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Zimzim said 9:33AM on 1-28-2009
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.
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David said 9:42AM on 1-28-2009
The Blog DOES work :
http://www.officeformac.com/blog/
Stange isn't it ?! Maybe the Blog is hosted on another server ...
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Tracy said 12:41PM on 1-28-2009
It's not just Mactopia... It is EVERYthing Mac related. Temporary technical glitch? Right... Uh huh.
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Polo said 1:25PM on 1-28-2009
Entourage for Exchange Services update .., Entourage for Exchange Services update .., Entourage for Exchange Services update !..
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macxprt said 1:36PM on 1-28-2009
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.
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