Apple Thoughts: Test Drive Microsoft Office 2008, Full Functionality Included!

"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."

I'm not a power user of office product software, so I haven't had much of a need to use anything but Open Office since I switched from using Microsoft Office products about a year ago. And I've been pretty happy with it so far. However if you want to give this a try, even though it is only for 30 days, you get full functionality (a first from Microsoft) of the Microsoft Office 2008 suite of products.

If you do decide to buy, they offer three editions: student for $149.95 USD, standard for $399.95 USD and Special Media Edition for $499.95 USD. Before forking out the bucks, best stop in at Amazon.com, the price differential is from roughly $40.00 USD to about $250.00 USD. Quite a difference.