<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><div><meta charset="utf-8"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; "><p style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 13pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal; margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">Good Morning,</p><p style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 13pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal; margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">Information Services & Technology (IS&T) is pleased to announce full support for Office for Mac 2011.</p><p style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 13pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal; margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">Microsoft released Office for Mac 2011 on October 26. Since then, IS&T, in collaboration with IT colleagues across campus, has tested its core components (Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook). Based on test results, IS&T recommends that members of the MIT community use caution when deciding to upgrade and wait to install Office for Mac 2011 on production machines until your Department, Lab, Center (DLC) or other IT provider is ready to support you locally.</p><p style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 13pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal; margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">IS&T will continue to provide support for Office for Mac 2008 during the transition.</p><p style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 13pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal; margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><b>New Features</b><br>Office for Mac 2011 provides several new features, including:</p><ul style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 13pt; list-style-type: disc; "><li style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 13pt; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">Replacement of Entourage with Outlook for Mac (Though Outlook for Mac looks similar, it does not contain all of the features found in its Windows counterpart.)</li><li style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 13pt; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">Support for the <em>Visual Basic for Applications</em> (<em>VBA</em>) programming language</li></ul><p style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 13pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal; margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><b>Known Issues</b><br>There are several issues which you should take into consideration before installing Microsoft Word for Mac 2011:</p><ul style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 13pt; list-style-type: disc; "><li style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 13pt; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">It does not support PowerPC (PPC) hardware.</li><li style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 13pt; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">It is not compatible with EndNote X4.</li><li style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 13pt; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">Characters, including < > | \ " and /, must be removed from a file name before it can be opened.</li><li style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 13pt; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">The new user interface may take some time to learn.</li><li style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 13pt; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">Exchange accounts are excluded when importing accounts from Mail.app into Outlook for Mac 2011.</li><li style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 13pt; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">Outlook for Mac 2011 does not support a way to replace signatures.</li></ul><p style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 13pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal; margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">For a complete list of known issues, see Microsoft's <span class="nobr" style="white-space: nowrap; "><a href="http://mac2.microsoft.com/help/office/14/en-us/word/item/bb539409-4be8-48da-a1b3-842cf958fffb?category=7bac4eee-5679-4927-9246-39569667abec" class="external-link" rel="nofollow" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 102); ">Word</a></span>, <span class="nobr" style="white-space: nowrap; "><a href="http://mac2.microsoft.com/help/office/14/en-us/powerpoint/item/043cd4a2-cf51-4a38-a68e-18eba9e63143?category=a55c51a0-47c3-47a3-9878-d132280982a6" class="external-link" rel="nofollow" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 102); ">PowerPoint</a></span>, <span class="nobr" style="white-space: nowrap; "><a href="http://mac2.microsoft.com/help/office/14/en-us/excel/item/4ba243ae-1afa-4283-ba6a-d2a020dcc07a?category=29b6bd0c-76a8-4209-97a1-837d57b59c0b" class="external-link" rel="nofollow" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 102); ">Excel</a></span> and <span class="nobr" style="white-space: nowrap; "><a href="http://mac2.microsoft.com/help/office/14/en-us/outlook/item/f14a9ab2-bb71-4104-bfba-57ceca090f06?category=e88d108b-3a43-4636-9fe8-475447441a9b" class="external-link" rel="nofollow" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 102); ">Outlook</a></span> known issues pages.</p><p style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 13pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal; margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><b>Licensing</b><br>Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 is covered by MIT's <span class="nobr" style="white-space: nowrap; "><a href="http://ist.mit.edu/services/software/msca/overview" class="external-link" rel="nofollow" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 102); ">Microsoft Campus Agreement</a></span>. MIT departments, faculty and staff may install this software on any MIT-owned computer, provided that it will only be used by current MIT faculty, staff or students for MIT purposes only. MIT students are not covered under the general terms of MIT's Microsoft Campus Agreement. Students should contact the <span class="nobr" style="white-space: nowrap; "><a href="http://ist.mit.edu/services/software/msca/office-pro" class="external-link" rel="nofollow" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 102); ">software liaison</a> </span>for their department, lab, or center (DLC) to determine if their DLC funds student access to Microsoft Office as part of MIT's Microsoft Campus Agreement. Students who are not covered can obtain Microsoft Office at academic pricing through educational resellers such as <span class="nobr" style="white-space: nowrap; "><a href="https://web.mit.edu/ecat/ecat3/personalorders.html?Submit=Place+Personal+Order" class="external-link" rel="nofollow" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 102); ">GovConnection</a></span><sup> </sup>[<span class="nobr" style="white-space: nowrap; "><a href="http://ist.mit.edu/services/certificates" class="external-link" rel="nofollow" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 102); ">certificates</a></span> required].</p><p style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 13pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal; margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><b>How To Obtain</b><br>MIT faculty and staff and departmentally funded students can download the Office for Mac 2011 installer from IS&T's <span class="nobr" style="white-space: nowrap; "><a href="https://msca.mit.edu/cgi-bin/msoffice" class="external-link" rel="nofollow" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 102); ">Microsoft Campus Agreement for MS Office Professional download site</a></span><sup> </sup>[<span class="nobr" style="white-space: nowrap; "><a href="http://ist.mit.edu/services/certificates" class="external-link" rel="nofollow" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 102); ">certificates</a> </span>required]. To reduce costs, IS&T will not be providing installation media to software liaisons.</p><p style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 13pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal; margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><b>Training</b><br>IS&T will soon make available an online training library that covers each of Office for Mac 2011's core components: Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook.</p><p style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 13pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal; margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><b>Getting Help</b><br>IS&T's Office for Mac 2011 product page, which includes links to a number of other documents, can be found here:</p><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px; border:none; padding:0px;"><p style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 13pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal; margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span class="nobr" style="white-space: nowrap; "><a href="http://ist.mit.edu/services/software/office/2011" class="external-link" rel="nofollow" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 102); ">http://ist.mit.edu/services/software/office/2011</a></span></p></blockquote><p style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 13pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal; margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">If you have questions or need assistance, please contact the Computing Help Desk at <span class="nobr" style="white-space: nowrap; "><a href="mailto:helpdesk@mit.edu" class="external-link" rel="nofollow" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 102); ">helpdesk@mit.edu</a></span> or 617.253.1101. You can also submit a request online at <span class="nobr" style="white-space: nowrap; "><a href="http://ist.mit.edu/support" class="external-link" rel="nofollow" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 102); ">http://ist.mit.edu/support</a></span>.</p><p style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 13pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal; margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; font-size: medium;"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;"><p style="margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">--Patrick</p><p style="margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri,sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">----------------------------------------------------------------------------</span></font></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; "><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Patrick McNeal</span></font></span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; "></span></span></font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; "><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Macintosh Platform Coordinator</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Systems Engineering, Information Services and Technology</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Massachusetts Institute of Technology</span></font></div></span></div></span></span></font></span></font></span></font></div></div></p></span></font></span></p></span></div></body></html>