Office 2007 trial for USA people only?

[Mart]

I've tried to download the Office 2007 trial, but it appears to be only for
people in the USA. Is this correct?

Mart

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

Check with your local subsidiary for availability - Office has not been optimized for all locales yet and your local MSFT office would have the best information on when it will be done.

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After furious head scratching, Mart asked:

| I've tried to download the Office 2007 trial, but it appears to be
| only for people in the USA. Is this correct?
|
| Mart

 

[Rainald Taesler]

Mart shared these words of wisdom:

I've tried to download the Office 2007 trial, but it appears to be
only for people in the USA. Is this correct?

I did not find it on the MS site but a birdie has whispered in my ear:

German: http://germany.trymicrosoftoffice.com/
France: http://france.trymicrosoftoffice.com/
English: http://us20.trymicrosoftoffice.com/
Japan: http://japan.trymicrosoftoffice.com/

Rainald

 

[Rainald Taesler]

Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook] shared these words of wisdom:

Check with your local subsidiary for availability - Office has not
been optimized for all locales yet and your local MSFT office would
have the best information on when it will be done.

Honestly speaking I cannot understand this.
Office 2007 has been localized for quite some countries and can be
downloaded by the VL clients.

And the trials are available for a number of countries.
AFAICS it's more or less a question of "know-where".

Rainald

 

[Alexa McLaughlin]

Do you have a URL for Australia?

Alexa

Mart shared these words of wisdom:


I did not find it on the MS site but a birdie has whispered in my ear:

German: http://germany.trymicrosoftoffice.com/
France: http://france.trymicrosoftoffice.com/
English: http://us20.trymicrosoftoffice.com/
Japan: http://japan.trymicrosoftoffice.com/

Rainald

 

[Rainald Taesler]

Alexa McLaughlin shared these words of wisdom:

Do you have a URL for Australia?

Sorry, no.
But what would that be needed for?
There are no specific Australian versions.
So you can just download the English versions from the US
downloadsite.

Rainald

 

[Alexa McLaughlin]

I need a site that accepts an Australian postcode.

Alexa

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Alexa,

At present the Australia local page
http://office.microsoft.com/en-au/default.aspx
only lists the online test drive as being available. The local MS subsidiaries are able to choose how/if trial copies will be made
available in their area. There may be a way to get one once the product is on retails shelves.

================
Do you have a URL for Australia?

Alexa >>
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Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

 

[Alexa McLaughlin]

Hi

I understand that.

However, I had a Microsoft Download Notifications email yesterday announcing
60 day trials without specifying US only but linking to the page requiring a
US postcode. The least they could have done was to expain the situation
(including availability dates) for non-US users in the Microsoft Download
Notifications email.

This has taken a lot of wasted time to track down, which is exasparating.

Alexa

 

[Rainald Taesler]

Alexa McLaughlin shared these words of wisdom:

However, I had a Microsoft Download Notifications email yesterday
announcing 60 day trials without specifying US only but linking to
the page requiring a US postcode.

When I had been looking for a German download address and could not
find it, some other suggested to just make a fake and use some ZIP
cose for New York City. ;-)

The least they could have done

was to expain the situation (including availability dates) for
non-US users in the Microsoft Download Notifications email.

This has taken a lot of wasted time to track down, which is
exasparating.

Obviously time not spent inventive enough ;-)
I just tried to rplace the country in the URL for the trial downloads.
Bingo!!!
http://australia.trymicrosoftoffice.com/default.aspx
does what it's suupposed to do.
Go there and collect what you want.

All the best
Raianld

 

[Alexa McLaughlin]

Many thanks. I am now downloading.

Best wishes

Alexa

 

[Rainald Taesler]

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Many thanks. I am now downloading.

Have fun

Rainald
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