Hi Hans,

The site is country specific. http://trymicrosoftoffice.com will send
you to a different server depending on your country. It seems though
that the link posted on the Office Online page links to the US server...

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"Hans J Walloschek" <HansJWalloschek@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message news:4797CB23-92C4-4B68-8496-6BF4C880822C@microsoft.com:

> Hi Patrick,
> slowly I get the feeling that this is all a hoax because the Australian
> website sends you to the following URL
> http://office.microsoft.com/en-au/su...113661033.aspx which in turn
> says that it is a wrong address.
> I cannot see why I could not buy through the US Website. The funny thing is
> that when I click the buy option in the US website I get connected to:
> http://buy1.trymicrosoftoffice.com/b...&culture=en-US and the website itself talks about Trial Conversion
> and that there is no product. It would surprise me if microsoft could make
> so many stuff ups in just one matter.I think Microsoft are trying to pull the
> wool over its customers eyes, they pretend to have a product which in fact
> they dont.
> One last try, could you perhaps give me the URL which gives you the shopping
> cart.
>
>
>
>
> "Patrick Schmid [MVP]" wrote:
>
> > Hi Hans,
> >
> > I think this is related to you not being in the US. The link seems to be
> > specific to the United States. Can you try to go on
> > http://trymicrosoftoffice.com and see if there is any way for you to
> > navigate to the SLPs there?
> >
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> > "Hans J Walloschek" <HansJWalloschek@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
> > message news:BA3E8A54-41C2-4E35-AE72-782671129E70@microsoft.com:
> >
> > > Hi Patrick,
> > > this is the website comming up when I click
> > > buy:"http://buy1.trymicrosoftoffice.com/buyus/product.aspx?family=langpack&culture=en-US.
> > > there is no other option for selecting different packages opening up and the
> > > response in this website is "Product not found".
> > >
> > >
> > > "Patrick Schmid [MVP]" wrote:
> > >
> > > > I just tried to purchase the German Language pack here and it made it to
> > > > the shopping cart. Which one are you trying to buy and when do you get
> > > > the error message?
> > > > Also, which website do you get redirected to when you press the Buy link
> > > > from Office Online?
> > > >
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> > > > "Hans J Walloschek" <HansJWalloschek@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
> > > > message news:48AABBF7-B733-43EF-BD01-1E6897304192@microsoft.com:
> > > >
> > > > > Hi Patrick,
> > > > > tried your suggestion, response when i tried to buy was: "Product not
> > > > > found." Any further suggestions?
> > > > >
> > > > > "Patrick Schmid [MVP]" wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > You can purchase them now:
> > > > > > http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/su...113661033.aspx
> > > > > >
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> > > > > > "Hans J Walloschek" <HansJWalloschek@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
> > > > > > message news:30AC0963-77EE-440D-8E16-8528FD085709@microsoft.com:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > > Hi, I'm German/Australian, much of my correspondence is in German. Had so far
> > > > > > > no problems with Office 2003 and proofing tools, but 2007 leaves me high and
> > > > > > > dry!
> > > > > > > When will the German and English language packs be available. It was said to
> > > > > > > be in March, now we have April and no news or is there and I am only not
> > > > > > > aware of it? Does anyone know? How would I be made aware of availability?
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > >
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> >