Office for Mac 2011 is without a doubt a huge improvement over the frankly terrible 2004 and 2008 versions, but when you’ve been burned twice before, it’s hard to justify dropping $150 to find out.
Now Microsoft sends word that they’re doing something smart and offering a free 30 day trial of the entire Office for Mac 2011 productivity suite, giving unfettered access to Word, PowerPoint, Excel and Outlook 2011.
The download is around 900MB and requires an Intel-based Mac and 2.5GB of space. It can be found on Microsoft’s Office of Mac trial download page.
It’s hard to really recommend a software suite like Office for Mac, especially when there’s free alternatives like Open Office. That said, if you can justify the money and you need what it’s offering, Office for Mac 2011 is a surprisingly excellent suite that feels right at home on the Mac operating system. Why not give it a try?
John Brownlee is a writer for Fast Company, and a contributing writer here at CoM. He has also written for Wired, Playboy, Boing Boing, Popular Mechanics, VentureBeat, and Gizmodo. He lives in Boston with his wife and two parakeets. You can follow him here on Twitter.
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