As you know, both Windows Vista and Office 2007 have been released to manufacturing (RTM’d) about a week ago. Both are available for download now.

However, for a couple of days, if you were in France, you were greeted with a strange note after logging in to the MSDN subscription site:

Note to Customers in France
Office 2007 has not been authorized for supply, import or export to or from France. If you are located in France, Microsoft does not authorize the download of this product, until further notice.

No further explanation was provided. Fortunately, as of last night, the following can be found on the same place:

Note to Customers in France
Office 2007 is now available for download.

Note the use of color – red for bad, green for good  Again, no explanation, just that it's available.

Digging through some French blogs I ran into a few rumors of which the most plausible one was that because pieces of Office 2007 contain DRM (I don’t think that’s true, but it might be interpreted as such) and France has recently passed a (controversial) law regarding DRM that this was an issue.

Whatever it is, it’s resolved now. Start your download engines