Have you recently purchased a Microsoft product, with the new improved "lifetime" package? Be honest now, how long did it take you to figure out how to open it?
After a recent purchase of Microsoft Office Professional sat about unopened for several weeks, I figured it was time to search the internet for the answer of how to open the case.
First, of course, I had to plow through glowing press release recommendations of the "lifetime" container.
Then I found a fellow sufferer in an online forum.
Here now, for the benefit of future generations is my tutorial on how to open the freakin' thing:
First stand the container upright. Notice the little red plastic ribbon tab. Hopefully you will not have already destroyed that tab in a previous effort to open the container.
There will also be clear plastic tape sealing the top of the container. If you try to pull the tape off, you may damage the Authenticity Label which just happens to be placed under the tape. Instead, slice through the tape with a knife.
The inner container piece then pivots out towards the right. If you have already destroyed the pull tab, you may need to use the knife to begin tilting the inner container outward.
The inner container is anchored to the outer container at the lower left corner. It is supposed to remain anchored. It should not be unattached from the outer container. You tilt it outward just far enough to remove the CD and/or booklet, then you tilt it back in to close the container.
Shessh. What Eistein came up with this one, I wonder?
