![]() ![]() The program is simple to use and is now completely stable.įor this early a version, version 1, the program shows real promise and I hope to see the dev continue to improve on the list of found serial numbers. While that may not seem like a large number you have to realize that there is no real standard for how a program stores and checks the serial. I looked at the list and it appears that a number of the possibles are the correct codes. It found 20 confirmed licenses and 92 possibles. The program itself does the job it claims to do. I know the dev put in a lot of time fixing a problem that was effecting a handful of users. I have to say it is rare these days to find this level of support. Today I received a new version to download which fixed the problem. And not all people running the program had the problem. ![]() Seems that I was a member of a select group of 5 people having this problem. The problem only occurred when scanning the plist file for my weather program, Seasonality. Over the course of a few emails he sent me debug versions and I sent back the reports. I found out it was a happening only when doing a deep scan, which is the default, and emailed the developer. ![]() When I installed it and ran it for the first time it crashed partway through the scan. Read more about applications in Computerworld's Applications Topic Center.I purchased the program on a recent promo as the price was right. His email address is more by Gregg Keizer on. Follow Gregg on Twitter at on Google+ or subscribe to Gregg's RSS feed. Gregg Keizer covers Microsoft, security issues, Apple, Web browsers and general technology breaking news for Computerworld. Office for Mac Home and Student lists for $140, while the for-commercial-use Home and Business sells for $220.Ĭustomers, however, have less than three more years before Office for Mac 2011 falls off Microsoft's support list in January 2016. They can also opt for a "perpetual" license of Office for Mac 2011, the traditional kind that is paid for once, but can be used as long as wanted. The consumer subscription plan, Office 365 Home Premium, costs $100 per year. we can see a leading position of Microsoft Company and its MS OFFICE. Yesterday, MacBU recommended that customers running Office for Mac 2004 migrate to Office 365, the line of subscription plans that lets users install Office for Mac Home & Business 2011 on up to five Macs. Or the future manager should be familiar with the offer by Apple Company and its. Office for Mac 2008 dropped support for Visual Basic macros, but that support was restored in Office for Mac 2011. Microsoft extended support for Office for Mac 2004 to allow its users, many of whom relied on Visual Basic-based macros, time to migrate to the impending Office for Mac 2011, which launched in October 2010. "This extension does not change the five-year support policy for other Office for Mac products, including future versions," a senior product manager said then. But Microsoft's last-minute reprieve of Office for Mac 2004 was a one-time deal, as the MacBU made plain at the time. The speedy retirement of Office for Mac 2008 is not new: Users faced the same five-year support lifespan for Office for Mac 2004, which was shut down in January 2012.Īdmittedly, that was more over two years later than the original deadline. For consumer software, meanwhile, it states: "Microsoft will offer Mainstream Support for either a minimum of 5 years from the date of a product's general availability, or for 2 years after the successor product (N+1) is released, whichever is longer." "Microsoft will offer a minimum of 10 years of support for Business and Developer products," the company says. On its support lifecycle FAQ, Microsoft explains support for business and consumer software. At the same time it categorizes all editions of Office on OS X as consumer products. But it will not be served with security updates after April 8.įor some reason, Microsoft considers all editions of Office for Windows as business products, no matter that some - like Home and Student - cannot be used for commercial purposes. Office for Mac 2008 will not suddenly stop working next week it will launch, and let users create, edit and print documents. The older Office Student and Teacher 2003 retires down the road, too, in April 2014, alongside Windows XP.Įven the Mac suite that's clearly business-oriented, Office 2008 for Mac Business Edition, loses support in a few days. Office Home and Student 2007, for example, which launched in late January 2007, a full year before Office for Mac 2008 appeared, will be supported until October 2017, more than four years from now. Microsoft supports the Windows versions of Office, even those that target consumers, for 10 years, or twice as long as it does Office for the Mac. The MacBU's note was yet another reminder that Microsoft shortchanges customers running OS X.
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