About Microsoft Office for Macintosh
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Microsoft Office (vendor: Microsoft) is a suite of office productivity applications.

Information on this page is to help users determine what product best fits their document editing and other office productivity needs.

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Microsoft Office 2008 is a suite of applications that includes: Entourage, Excel, PowerPoint and Word.
  • The installed package requires Mac OS 10.4.11 or later and 2 GB of hard disk space.
  • You may choose to install one or all of these applications.
  • Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint all have a new file format that is not backward compatible. However, each of these applications provides the option of saving files in earlier file formats.
Microsoft Office 2004 is obsolete software. It may be used on Mac OS versions prior to 10.4.11 and is more appropriate for older computers with hardware limitations.

For use by Brown University faculty and staff only. User authentication is required. Students may obtain Microsoft Office through the Microsoft Student Select Program.

Under the Microsoft Campus Agreement, Office may only be used for Brown-related projects, whether on computers owned or leased by Brown University or on computers personally owned by covered users. Covered users are defined as faculty and staff of Brown University.

Office must be uninstalled when the user is no longer affiliated with Brown University, and may not be installed on computers belonging to other institutions.

By downloading this software you agree to these limitations.


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Last Reviewed: Wednesday, 16-Sep-2009 10:53:52 EDT by Software_Services