When launching an application it will remind you to activate with the following message 'You must activate your copy of Office for Mac within 15 days. If you choose to click on the Activate Later button, the product will run for 15 days only. Product Activation is required to use the product. If the final part of the purchase was a confirmation from Microsoft, you should have gotten an email titled 'Microsoft Office for Mac Order Confirmation'. All previous versions of Office for Mac, other then trial, did not require Activation. All previous versions of Office for Mac, other then trial, did not require Activation.Īfter you activate the software product, a specific product key is assigned to the computer hardware on which you installed the product. Even with an activated copy of Office 2011 on your Mac, I know of no utility which can extract the product key. Activation is a new feature in Office Mac 2011. The goal of Product Activation is to reduce a form of piracy known as 'casual copying' or 'softlifting.' Casual copying is a form of piracy characterized by the sharing of software between people in a way that infringes on the software's end user license agreement (EULA).Īctivation is a new feature in Office Mac 2011. Microsoft Product Activation tries to reduce counterfeit software, and to make sure that Microsoft customers receive the software quality that they expect. FREE DOWNLOAD Office Mac 2011 Product key Full Office 2011 For Mac FREE - NO SERIAL OR KEY NEEDEDDownload and install Office 2011.